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

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.

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.

Kindled the fire within you.

No one has direct access to your mind like you do. That's why introspection remains a valid technique even after the invention of brain scanners.

Don't let two men fall in love with you, girls. It's not the sort of thing that ends well."-Uncle Charles

I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met.

Needs multiply as they are met. Woe to the man who would live a disentangled life. Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth!

Beastly things, teeth. Give us trouble from the cradle to the grave.

Find a man with both feet firmly on the ground and you've found a man about to make a difficult putt.

Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell.

The world is full of guys. Be a man. Don't be a guy

There's always that fear of your own head and the things you're going to think.