If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

My first program taught me a lot about the errors that I was going to be making in the future, and also about how to find errors. That's sort of the story of my life, making errors and trying to recover from them. I try to get things correct. I probably obsess about not making too many mistakes.

The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located.

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

I can’t go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu.

We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.