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

By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality.

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%

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

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 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.

We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.