But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not….

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do..

Good engineering is characterized by gradual, stepwise refinement of products that yields increased performance under given constraints and with give….

Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples..

Programming is usually taught by examples..

A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want..

Prolific programmers contribute to certain disaster..

Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling -- the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than ….

Our ultimate goal is extensible programming. By this, we mean the construction of hierarchies of modules, each module adding new functionality to the….

Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer's standard of quality and perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products.

Usually its users discover sooner or later that their program does not deliver all the desired results, or worse, that the results requested were not….

Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings..

Programs should be written and polished until they acquire publication quality..

Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster..

In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever..

Complexity has and will maintain a strong fascination for many people. It is true that we live in a complex world and strive to solve inherently comp….

Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. (Or, sometimes known by] Grove [the head of Intel] giveth and Gates [the head of Microsoft] ta….

Professors typically spend their time in meetings about planning, policy, proposals, fund-raising, consulting, interviewing, traveling, and so forth,….

The belief that complex systems require armies of designers and programmers is wrong. A system that is not understood in its entirety, or at least to….

Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy is a….

Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps..