I've never been a good estimator of how long things are going to take.

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.

It's your words that gave me courage. It became my light that would guide me towards the right path again. -Jellal Fernandes

Getting up early and feeling awake was the one skill he had never truly perfected - he got up, of course, but it never felt natural.

Life is all about how you take yourself to the other end that makes or breaks you.

Don't talk - keep it in your heart.

Waking up every day and coming to the ballpark and playing baseball ... that's a good feeling.

Let love write on you for awhile.

Flinch not, neither give up nor despair, if the achieving of every act in accordance with right principle is not always continuous with thee.

Every Story is different, Every Movie is different, Every Director is different.

I'm not railing, 'This is inadequate' or 'This isn't right.' Just show me what will work.

When someone changes your world, that's when you know he's important to you.