The Best Theory Is Inspired By Practice.

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%

I Can’t Go To A Restaurant And Order Food Because I Keep Looking At The Fonts On The Menu.

Programs Are Meant To Be Read By Humans And Only Incidentally For Computers To Execute.

Programming Is Legitimate And Necessary Academic Endeavour.

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.