Whenever the C++ language designers had two competing ideas as to how they should solve some problem, they said, "OK, we'll do them both". So the language is too baroque for my taste.

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

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'm obsessively detail-oriented.

Always remember, however, that there’s usually a simpler and better way to do something than the first way that pops into your head.

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

Premature optimization is the root of all evil.