It would be nice if we could design a virtual reality in Hyperbolic Space, and meet each other there.

Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random

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

It would be nice if we could design a virtual reality in Hyperbolic Space, and meet each other there.

We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.

Computer programming is an art, because it applies accumulated knowledge to the world, because it requires skill and ingenuity, and especially because it produces objects of beauty. A programmer who subconsciously views himself as an artist will enjoy what he does and will do it better.

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.