It Would Be Nice If

The Designer Of A New Kind Of System Must Participate Fully In The Implementation.

Let Us Change Our Traditional Attitude To The Construction Of Programs. Instead Of Imagining That Our Main Task Is To Instruct A Computer What To Do, Let Us Concentrate Rather On Explaining To Human Beings What We Want A Computer To Do.

The Best Programs Are Written So That Computing Machines Can Perform Them Quickly And So That Human Beings Can Understand Them Clearly. A Programmer Is Ideally An Essayist Who Works With Traditional Aesthetic And Literary Forms As Well As Mathematical Concepts, To Communicate The Way That An Algorithm Works And To Convince A Reader That The Results Will Be Correct.

We Should Forget About Small Efficiencies, Say About 97% Of The Time: Premature Optimization Is The Root Of All Evil. Yet We Should Not Pass Up Our Opportunities In That Critical 3%

The Important Thing, Once You Have Enough To Eat And A Nice House, Is What You Can Do For Others, What You Can Contribute To The Enterprise As A Whole.