"My definition of elegance is the achievement of a given functionality with a minimum of mechanism and a maximum of cl…"

"Regardless of whether one is dealing with assembly language or compiler language, the number of debugged lines of sou…"

"Systems with unknown behavioral properties require the implementation of iterations which are intrinsic to the design…"

"The use of the high level language made each programmer a factor of 5 to 10 more productive in a coding sense and mor…"

"Because one has to be an optimist to begin an ambitious project, it is not surprising that underestimation of complet…"

"Clearly, one can obfuscate one's ideas with a compiler language but it's harder. To some extent one is talking about …"

"To our dismay, users who had been enduring several hour waits between jobs run under batch processing were suddenly r…"

"One is faced with a dilemma: If one places total trust in all other users, one is vulnerable to the antisocial behavi…"

"It is important to emphasize the value of simplicity and elegance, for complexity has a way of compounding difficulti…"

"The value of metaphors should not be underestimated. Metaphors have the virtue of an expected behavior that is unders…"