Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour.

The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language.

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

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

The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish.

A mathematical formula should never be "owned" by anybody! Mathematics belong to God.

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