Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.

Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.

Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random

Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.

People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute.

We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.

People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on each other, like a wall of mini stones.

The whole thing that makes a mathematician’s life worthwhile is that he gets the grudging admiration of three or four colleagues.

AI has by now succeeded in doing essentially everything that requires 'thinking' but has failed to do most of what people and animals do 'without thinking'-that, somehow, is much harder.

Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle, almost nothing at all.

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.

I think every role is always exciting and intimidating. I've never had a role where I wasn't intimidated by it.

Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.

When everything around you is crazy, it is ingenious to stay calm.

What is true of Mr. Mill's influence on the women's-suffrage question is true also of the other political movements in which he took an active interest.

People don't make good Anchors, though, Craig. They change.

In 1968, in the midst of the tumultuous 1960s, the Olympics were much more than just another event

No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win.