When you write a program, think of it primarily as a work of literature. You're trying to write something that human beings are going to read. Don't think of it primarily as something a computer is going to follow. The more effective you are at making your program readable, the more effective it's going to be: You'll understand it today, you'll understand it next week, and your successors who are going to maintain and modify it will understand it.

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

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

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

My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the text into my machine.

By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality.

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.