How can you own numbers? Numbers belong to the world.

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.

Some say God exists outside creation if in fact he did breath in Adams nostrils he became part of humanity and creation.

There is no right or wrong

Surround yourself with things that make you smile.”

He was the kind of guy who didn’t have any problems because he didn’t want any.

If you think that your hardest problem is what color shoes to wear.You should get out more!

Creatures whose main spring is curiosity will enjoy the accumulating of fact far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

My mother had a radio show - a Barbara Walters type of gal and was very successful for about 20-some years on a radio station.

Everything depends upon execution; having just a vision is no solution.

Time is the seed of the Universe.

And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.