Everyday Life Is Like Programming, I Guess.

Ai Has By Now Succeeded In Doing Essentially Everything That Requires 'thinking' But Has Failed To Do Most Of What People And Animals Do 'without Thinking'-that, Somehow, Is Much Harder.

Premature Optimization Is The Root Of All Evil.

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

The Best Programs Are Written So That Computing Machines Can Perform Them Quickly And So That Human Beings Can Understand Them Clearly. A Programmer Is Ideally An Essayist Who Works With Traditional Aesthetic And Literary Forms As Well As Mathematical Concepts, To Communicate The Way That An Algorithm Works And To Convince A Reader That The Results Will Be Correct.

[the Euclidean Algorithm Is] The Granddaddy Of All Algorithms, Because It Is The Oldest Nontrivial Algorithm That Has Survived To The Present Day.