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%

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

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

The important thing, once you have enough to eat and a nice house, is what you can do for others, what you can contribute to the enterprise as a whole.

Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.

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

The whole thing that makes a mathematician’s life worthwhile is that he gets the grudging admiration of three or four colleagues.