Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so-called "powerful" programming languages belong to the… - Edsger W. Dijkstra

The problems of the real world are primarily those you are left with when you refuse to apply their effective solutions.

In the wake of the Cultural Revolution and now of the recession I observe a mounting pressure to co-operate and to promote "teamwork". For its anti-individualistic streak, such a drive is of course highly suspect; some people may not be so sensitive to it, but having seen the Hitlerjugend in action suffices for the rest of your life to be very wary of "team spirit". Very.

Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code.