The best theory is inspired by practice.

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.

I had never seen the end of day and the beginning of the night greet each other. We were caught in the loveliness between the two. A House Like a Lotus

Love?! When a piece of broke heart hits you.

What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.[Lincoln's maxim and philosophy]

Looking back I can see that there have been no breaks from one departure to the next

She lives in the poetry she cannot write.

God this request isn't for me it's for my mom. . . . Could you send her a son-in-law?

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

Every fancy that we would substitute for a reality is, if we saw aright, and saw the whole, not only false, but every way less beautiful and excellent than that which we sacrifice to it.

Because of what I do, it has to be an open book, but right now this is a book that is being written.

If I had a religious belief, I would want it to be as strong as my belief in the theater.