We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.

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.

The architect and the father of war are covetousness of the leaders and of different interest groups fueling war.

Some mysteries are simply irresistible,” she said. “They have components that alter a life.

I think as a moral question, restaurant workers should get paid more.

Let your eye be chaste, your hand faithful, your tongue truthful and your heart enlightened.

Many people wait throughout their whole lives for the chance to be good in their own fashion.

I try to work with God as a partner.

It would be hard to find a more compelling example of the American dream than Alberto Gonzales.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

When I see that people are touched, and they feel solidarity with him, I say to myself, "I made a little change."

I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life ever.