Several People Have Told Me

Please Don't Fall Into The Trap Of Believing That I Am Terribly Dogmatical About The Go To Statement. I Have The Uncomfortable Feeling That Others Are Making A Religion Out Of It, As If The Conceptual Problems Of Programming Could Be Solved By A Single Trick, By A Simple Form Of Coding Discipline!

About The Use Of Language: It Is Impossible To Sharpen A Pencil With A Blunt Axe. It Is Equally Vain To Try To Do It With Ten Blunt Axes Instead.

Production Speed Is Severely Slowed Down If One Works With Half-time People Who Have Other Obligations As Well. This Is At Least A Factor Of Four; Probably It Is Worse.

In The Software Business There Are Many Enterprises For Which It Is Not Clear That Science Can Help Them; That Science Should Try Is Not Clear Either.

We Must Be Very Careful When We Give Advice To Younger People; Sometimes They Follow It!