In fact if you disregard the contents and preface, the very first words in The Elements of Programming Style are a quote from The Elements of Style, "It is an

In fact if you disregard the contents and preface, the very first words in The Elements of Programming Style are a quote from The Elements of Style, "It is an old observation that the best writers sometimes disregard the rules of rhetoric. When they do so, however, the reader will usually find in the sentence some compensating merit, attained at the cost of the violation. Unless he is certain of doing as well, he will probably do best to follow the rules." William Strunk and E. B. White, The Elements of Style