The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed.

Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence.

Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples.

Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.

Programming is usually taught by examples.

During the process of stepwise refinement, a notation which is natural to the problem in hand should be used as long as possible.

Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. (Or, sometimes known by] Grove [the head of Intel] giveth and Gates [the head of Microsoft] taketh away.)