It is much more rewarding to do more with less.

The designer of a new kind of system must participate fully in the implementation.

An algorithm must be seen to be believed.

It would be nice if we could design a virtual reality in Hyperbolic Space, and meet each other there.

I can’t go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu.

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

My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the text into my machine.