I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.

The book Dynamic Programming by Richard Bellman is an important, pioneering work in which a group of problems is collected together at the end of some chapters under the heading "Exercises and Research Problems," with extremely trivial questions appearing in the midst of deep, unsolved problems. It is rumored that someone once asked Dr. Bellman how to tell the exercises apart from the research problems, and he replied: "If you can solve it, it is an exercise; otherwise it's a research problem."

God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue.

The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language.

There's ways to amuse yourself while doing things and thats how I look at efficency.

Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been prepared with the help of a computer.

A mathematical formula should never be "owned" by anybody! Mathematics belong to God.