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.

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

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

A list is only as strong as its weakest link.

TeX has found at least one bug in every Pascal compiler it's been run on, I think, and at least two in every C compiler

I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.

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