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.

I'm obsessively detail-oriented.

It is much more rewarding to do more with less.

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

The book Dynamic Programming by Richard Bellman is an important, pioneering work in which a group of problems is collected together at the end of some chapters under the heading "Exercises and Research Problems," with extremely trivial questions appearing in the midst of deep, unsolved problems. It is rumored that someone once asked Dr. Bellman how to tell the exercises apart from the research problems, and he replied: "If you can solve it, it is an exercise; otherwise it's a research problem."

The sun comes up just about as often as it goes down, in the long run, but this doesn't make its motion random.

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