Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.

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

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.

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.

Obviously it’s hard for anyone to imagine, but these dance halls were powder kegs just waiting to erupt. Names were made and reputations were enhanced or blown in a flash!

I was that stupid, I realized. I was also stupid enough not to realize that sometimes even the most beautiful souls need to be shown love once in a while.

My family doesn't understand trying to chase your dreams because they were all about survival.

Before you make a friend, eate a bushell of salt with him.

I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.

A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me.

Shut the door not that it lets in the cold but that it lets out the coziness.

Art is lies that tell the truth.

Every sect is a certificate that God has not plainly revealed his will to man. To each reader the Bible conveys a different meaning.

You have to be quite brave to write about something that you honestly feel and think.