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

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

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

The best theory is inspired by practice.

The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish.

I can’t go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu.

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%