I remember that mathematicians were telling me in the 1960s that they would recognize computer science as a mature discipline when it had 1,000 deep algorithms. I think we've probably reached 500.

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.

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

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

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

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

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