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When We Take The Position That It Is Not Only The Programmer's Responsibility To Produce A Correct Program But Also To Demonstrate Its Correctness In A Convincing Manner, Then The Above Remarks Have A Profound Influence On The Programmer's Activity: The Object He Has To Produce Must Be Usefully Structured.

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

I Now Have Had My Foggy Crystal Ball For Quite A Long Time. Its Predictions Are Invariably Gloomy And Usually Correct, But I Am Quite Used To That And They Won't Keep Me From Giving You A Few Suggestions, Even If It Is Merely An Exercise In Futility Whose Only Effect Is To Make You Feel Guilty.

Don't Compete With Me: Firstly, I Have More Experience, And Secondly, I Have Chosen The Weapons.

A Most Important, But Also Most Elusive, Aspect Of Any Tool Is Its Influence On The Habits Of Those Who Train Themselves In Its Use. If The Tool Is A Programming Language This Influence Is, Whether We Like It Or Not, An Influence On Our Thinking Habits.... A Programming Language Is A Tool That Has Profound Influence On Our Thinking Habits.