I have a hunch that the unknown sequences of DNA will decode into copyright notices and patent protections.

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.

Endless ocean, blue water, dreamy sky, tranquil beach, love in the air, mind fly high.

It isn't about knowing the most stories, child. It is about carrying the ones that are most important and passing them along.

...knowledge is the cause of human progress.

Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.

I'd rather have preparation than motivation. Everyone likes to play, but no one likes to practice.

Few have heard of Fra Luca Pacioli, the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping; but he has probably had much more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.

The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor.

Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude.

To save my child, I'd rather go hungry. I got all of Ethiopia inside of me.

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.