An Algorithm Must Be Seen To Be

How Can You Own Numbers? Numbers Belong To The World.

By Understanding A Machine-oriented Language, The Programmer Will Tend To Use A Much More Efficient Method; It Is Much Closer To Reality.

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.

I've Never Been A Good Estimator Of How Long Things Are Going To Take.

When You Write A Program, Think Of It Primarily As A Work Of Literature. You're Trying To Write Something That Human Beings Are Going To Read. Don't Think Of It Primarily As Something A Computer Is Going To Follow. The More Effective You Are At Making Your Program Readable, The More Effective It's Going To Be: You'll Understand It Today, You'll Understand It Next Week, And Your Successors Who Are Going To Maintain And Modify It Will Understand It.