All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

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.

The only performance standard is Zero Defects.