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

Prolific programmers contribute to certain disaster.

But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.

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

Our ultimate goal is extensible programming. By this, we mean the construction of hierarchies of modules, each module adding new functionality to the system.

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

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.