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

Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling -- the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration.

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

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

Programming is usually taught by examples.

A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want.

Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer's standard of quality and perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products