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

There's ways to amuse yourself while doing things and thats how I look at efficency.

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.

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

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.

How can you own numbers? Numbers belong to the world.

I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.