Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.

An algorithm must be seen to be believed.

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

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.

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.

The whole thing that makes a mathematician’s life worthwhile is that he gets the grudging admiration of three or four colleagues.

The best theory is inspired by practice.