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

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

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.

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.

I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.

The struggle to leave the cocoon is what strengthens the butterfly’s wings so she can fly. I am about to become something beautiful.

I fear that someday you will abandon the joys we share and find another not worthy of your charms.

If the only thing that matters is what is written on your heart seek those things that matter most.

After you have made your commitment to say no to what no longer serves you, you will probably be invited to demonstrate that you really mean it.

One of the things I wanted to introduce in The Same Sea beyond transcending the conflict, is the fact that deep down below all our secrets are the same.

There is no such thing as completion. These are only stages in an endless progression. There are no final outcomes or decisions, since nothing ever stays the same.

...the crazy never die.

New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun.

Take the best out of everything and adapt it to your needs.