I'm obsessively detail-oriented.

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.

If you are hurting because they hurt then they are the ONE.

Life can be mysterious- particularly if your in love.

You can't have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.

A shoe has so much more to offer than just to walk.

Responsibility prevents crimes.

For the habitual truth-teller and truth-seeker, indeed, the whole world has very little liking. He is always unpopular.

We all want to know what went wrong, even when there isn't really an answer to that question.

A lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written about.

So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts.

This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit, Which gives men stomach to digest his words With better appetite.