The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.

We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.

People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on each other, like a wall of mini stones.

Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.

I try to learn certain areas of computer science exhaustively; then I try to digest that knowledge into a form that is accessible to people who don't have time for such study.

A list is only as strong as its weakest link.

Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute.