Good programmers know what's beautiful and bad ones don't.

if we were forced to choose just one, there would be no way to deny that Judaism is the most important intellectual development in human history.

If this is the information age, what are we so well-informed about?

The first step is always to succeed in becoming surprised - to notice that there is something funny going on.

For years, computer scientists were treating operating systems design as sort of an open-reserch issue, when the field's direction had been decided by commercial operations. Computer science has become completely cut off from reality.

Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity. ... The geniuses of the computer field, on the the other hand, are the people with the keenest aesthetic senses, the ones who are capable of creating beauty. Beauty is decisive at every level: the most important interfaces, the most important programming languages, the winning algorithms are the beautiful ones.

Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.