Science is knowledge which we understand so well that we can teach it to a computer; and if we don't fully understand something, it is an art to deal with it.

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.

The more boundless your vision, the more real you are.

Every Marine is, first and foremost, a rifleman. All other conditions are secondary.

The modern video games kind of - they're too three dimensional.

Please understand nearly every concept I hold near and dear has been stolen from others much brighter and better than me.

Ronald Reagan memorably combined intimacy with distance.

Vanity is a silly thing to be obsessed with because... it sounds cliché but it leads you to emptiness; it goes away.

When you become a commodity to a record label because you're making them millions of dollars, you can take all of your artistic integrity and throw it out the window.

All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great.

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.

I only believe in telling the truth and being truthful.