The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.

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.

Never be ashamed of who you are. True shame always belongs to the person that enjoys being ashamed of who you are.

Effective security measures do not come cheap.

If you're yelling within you that they shouldn't yell at you, that is where the pain begins, not with their yelling at you.

Even within one person, yesterday and today, there are differences. We must look at a deeper level.

It's hard to have a dialogue when you're name-calling.

My biggest superhero of writing is Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine fabulist. He's an amazingly perceptive writer, but also willing to make a joke.

That is the Mongolian creation myth: out of two different natures love is born. In contradiction, love grows in strength. In confrontation and transformation, love is preserved.

One of the great logical puzzles is how a woman is always like her mother but never like her sister.

Earth's saddest day and gladdest day were just three days apart!

Remind people who they are instead of just complimenting them on what they've done.