I can’t go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu.

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.

You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns - you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!

Actually, I always dreamed about getting a gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle in Olympic swimming. I always thought that would be the epic award in sports to get.

My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment.

We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.

That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

I won a really big fellowship to go straight on to get my Ph.D. And I went through agonies of indecision, and then I decided not to accept it. I just decided I didn't want to be an academic.

Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.

God is Mind, and God is infinite; hence all is Mind.

Neglect of appearance becomes men.