Aim For Brevity While Avoiding Jargon.

John Von Neumann Draws Attention To What Seemed To Him A Contrast. He Remarked That For Simple Mechanisms, It Is Often Easier To Describe How They Work Than What They Do, While For More Complicated Mechanisms, It Is Usually The Other Way Around.

The Computing Scientist's Main Challenge Is Not To Get Confused By The Complexities Of His Own Making.

Probably I Am Very Naive, But I Also Think I Prefer To Remain So, At Least For The Time Being And Perhaps For The Rest Of My Life.

Apl Is A Mistake, Carried Through To Perfection. It Is The Language Of The Future For The Programming Techniques Of The Past: It Creates A New Generation Of Coding Bums.

Write A Paper Promising Salvation, Make It A "structured" Something Or A "virtual" Something, Or "abstract," "distributed" Or "higher-order" Or "applicative" And You Can Almost Be Certain Of Having Started A New Cult.