Meta-design is much more difficult than design; it's easier to draw something than to explain how to draw it.

In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field.

Premature optimization is the root of all evil.

The sun comes up just about as often as it goes down, in the long run, but this doesn't make its motion random.

People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.

Science is knowledge which we understand so well that we can teach it to a computer; and if we don't fully understand something, it is an art to deal with it.

I think people who write programs do have at least a glimmer of extra insight into the nature of God... because creating a program often means that you have to create a small universe