The tools we use have a profound and devious influence on our thinking habits, and therefore on our thinking abilities.

Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code.

Probably I am very naive, but I also think I prefer to remain so, at least for the time being and perhaps for the rest of my life.

It is a mistake to think that programmers wares are programs. Programmers have to produce trustworthy solutions and present it in the form of cogent arguments. Programs source code is just the accompanying material to which these arguments are to be applied to.