God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue.

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.

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

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.

Ask me, "Why would you travel on the difficult path?". Because, I trust God to walk me through the unknown journey.

Loneliness means when you have no one to celebrate your success with and share your pains.

A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content.

Because he refused to adopt a defeatist attitude, he overcame the obstacles in his path.

If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.

Many pray with their lips for that for which their hearts have no desire.

Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose.

I believe it is the responsibility and duty of those in high-profile positions to give a voice to people whose voices cannot be heard.

[Commercial] radio is absolutely the enemy of music. They are my sworn and mortal enemy, and I will have nothing to do with them.

Heat can never pass from a colder to a warmer body without some other change, connected therewith, occurring at the same time.