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• The belief that complex systems require armies of designers and programmers is wrong. A system that is not understood in its entirety,…
• 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 admiration.
• Programs should be written and polished until they acquire publication quality.
• Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer's standard of quality and perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products
• Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.
• But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.
• Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can…
• It is evidently necessary to generate and test candidates for solutions in some systematic manner.
• Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others.…
• My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching,…

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