The important thing, once you have enough to eat and a nice house, is what you can do for others, what you can contribute to the enterprise as a whole.

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.

He's like a man with a fork, in a world of soup. (about his brother Liam)

you have to have the right sort of stone. Peridot for mothers, girasol for lovers, sapphire for sadness, and garnet for joy.

Hiring should be like dating. A great marriage does not happen in a 30 minutes interview.

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.

We deny that it is fun to be saving. It is fun to be prodigal. Go to the butterfly, thou parsimonious sluggard; consider her ways and get wise.

Destroying white civilization is the inmost desire of the league of designated victims we call minorities.

We're really having a problem right now in our culture. I haven't seen one movie lately in which the story and visuals have been equally good.

There's nothing that you can say in the paper that should affect you.

Down in devil gate drive. I led the angel pack on the road to sin. Knock down the gates, let me in.