May, in spite of all distractions generated by technology, all of you succeed in turning information into knowledge, knowledge into understanding, an… - Edsger W. Dijkstra

A picture may be worth a thousand words, a formula is worth a thousand pictures.

As a result of a long sequence of coincidences I entered the programming profession officially on the first spring morning of 1952, and as far as I have been able to trace, I was the first Dutchman to do so in my country.

Programming, when stripped of all its circumstantial irrelevancies, boils down to no more and no less than very effective thinking so as to avoid unmastered complexity, to very vigorous separation of your many different concerns.