The best practice is inspired by theory.

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 an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.

The destiny of man is to be more and more human.

Most artists don't know a hit. You can say I want this one to be a hit but it never become that way. The public decides that for you.

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.

I think I will serve as secretary of state as my last public position.

The eye is the window of the soul; even an animal looks for a man's intentions right into his eyes.

When Chong made to sit down next to her, Lilah drew her knife and stabbed the point into the earth between them. "I can see that you need some quiet time," he said and scuttled quickly away.

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.

Women must be very gentle with men as they, as well as women, seek to regain the lost wholeness for which they were destined.