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Don't Blame Me For The Fact That Competent Programming, As I View It As An Intellectual Possibility, Will Be Too Difficult For The Average Programmer, You Must Not Fall Into The Trap Of Rejecting A Surgical Technique Because It Is Beyond The Capabilities Of The Barber In His Shop Around The Corner.

If We Wish To Count Lines Of Code, We Should Not Regard Them As "lines Produced" But As "lines Spent."

I Mentioned The Non-competitive Spirit Explicitly, Because These Days, Excellence Is A Fashionable Concept. But Excellence Is A Competitive Notion, And That Is Not What We Are Heading For: We Are Heading For Perfection.

We Are All Shaped By The Tools We Use, In Particular: The Formalisms We Use Shape Our Thinking Habits, For Better Or For Worse, And That Means That We Have To Be Very Careful In The Choice Of What We Learn And Teach, For Unlearning Is Not Really Possible.

I Now Have Had My Foggy Crystal Ball For Quite A Long Time. Its Predictions Are Invariably Gloomy And Usually Correct, But I Am Quite Used To That And They Won't Keep Me From Giving You A Few Suggestions, Even If It Is Merely An Exercise In Futility Whose Only Effect Is To Make You Feel Guilty.