I'm obsessively detail-oriented.

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.

The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.

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.

Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been prepared with the help of a computer.

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

God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue.