The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music.

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

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

I'm obsessively detail-oriented.

It is much more rewarding to do more with less.

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.

A mathematical formula should never be "owned" by anybody! Mathematics belong to God.