Brainpower Is By Far Our Scarcest Resource.

Several People Have Told Me That My Inability To Suffer Fools Gladly Is One Of My Main Weaknesses.

I Mentioned The Non-competitive Spirit Explicitly, Because These Days, Excellence Is A Fashionable Concept. But Excellence Is A Competitive Notion, And That Is Not What We Are Heading For: We Are Heading For Perfection.

Thanks To The Greatly Improved Possibility Of Communication, We Overrate Its Importance. Even Stronger, We Underrate The Importance Of Isolation.

The Required Techniques Of Effective Reasoning Are Pretty Formal, But As Long As Programming Is Done By People That Don't Master Them, The Software Crisis Will Remain With Us And Will Be Considered An Incurable Disease. And You Know What Incurable Diseases Do: They Invite The Quacks And Charlatans In, Who In This Case Take The Form Of Software Engineering Gurus.

Much Of The Excitement We Get Out Of Our Work Is That We Don't Really Know What We Are Doing.