Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

 

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.

 

The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.

 

If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your
shoulders and say to yourself: ‘Dijkstra would not have liked this’, well that would be enough immortality for me.