The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.

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

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

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

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.

The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent.

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