We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.

Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.

The best theory is inspired by practice.

It is much more rewarding to do more with less.

Meta-design is much more difficult than design; it's easier to draw something than to explain how to draw it.

I'm obsessively detail-oriented.

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."