Elegance Is Not A Dispensable Luxury But

A Convincing Demonstration Of Correctness Being Impossible As Long As The Mechanism Is Regarded As A Black Box, Our Only Hope Lies In Not Regarding The Mechanism As A Black Box.

In The Good Old Days Physicists Repeated Each Other's Experiments, Just To Be Sure. Today They Stick To Fortran, So That They Can Share Each Other's Programs, Bugs Included.

Simplicity Is Prerequisite For Reliability.

Apl Is A Mistake, Carried Through To Perfection. It Is The Language Of The Future For The Programming Techniques Of The Past: It Creates A New Generation Of Coding Bums.

The Competent Programmer Is Fully Aware Of The Strictly Limited Size Of His Own Skull; Therefore He Approaches The Programming Task In Full Humility, And Among Other Things He Avoids Clever Tricks Like The Plague.