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

The best practice is inspired by theory.

I've never been a good estimator of how long things are going to take.

I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics; but I trust my family jewels only to Linux.

Science is knowledge which we understand so well that we can teach it to a computer; and if we don't fully understand something, it is an art to deal with it.

The psychological profiling [of a programmer] is mostly the ability to shift levels of abstraction, from low level to high level. To see something in the small and to see something in the large.

TeX has found at least one bug in every Pascal compiler it's been run on, I think, and at least two in every C compiler