The whole thing that makes a mathematician’s life worthwhile is that he gets the grudging admiration of three or four colleagues.

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.

AI has by now succeeded in doing essentially everything that requires 'thinking' but has failed to do most of what people and animals do 'without thinking'-that, somehow, is much harder.

Gabe?"The newchild stirred slightly in his sleep. Jonas looked over at him. "There could be love", Jonas whispered.

Character and attitude deficiencies are piercing thorns depending your handhold

There are a lot of movies that I don't care about, especially not remakes.

What do I like in a girl? I like a girl that likes me, a girl that knows how to smile and see the bright side of things. A girl that makes me a better person.

Pray for the best, prepare for the worst, and expect the unexpected.

Through the chill of December the early winter moans... but it's that January wind that rattles old bones.

Does he have ugly hands? Sometimes beautiful people have ugly hands." "No he has kind of amazing hands.

The best thing about living... Is the chance to keep on doing it!

I’ve seen all I need to. I’m going to go drink now in a futile effort to wipe away the memory of this debacle.

Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.