I have a hunch that the unknown sequences of DNA will decode into copyright notices and patent protections.

People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on each other, like a wall of mini stones.

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

Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random

We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%

In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field.

Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.