I'm Obsessively Detail-oriented.

The Book Dynamic Programming By Richard Bellman Is An Important, Pioneering Work In Which A Group Of Problems Is Collected Together At The End Of Some Chapters Under The Heading "exercises And Research Problems," With Extremely Trivial Questions Appearing In The Midst Of Deep, Unsolved Problems. It Is Rumored That Someone Once Asked Dr. Bellman How To Tell The Exercises Apart From The Research Problems, And He Replied: "if You Can Solve It, It Is An Exercise; Otherwise It's A Research Problem."

The Process Of Preparing Programs For A Digital Computer Is Especially Attractive, Not Only Because It Can Economically And Scientifically Rewarding, But Also Because It Can Be An Aesthetic Experience Much Like Composing Poetry Or Music.

The Designer Of A New Kind Of System Must Participate Fully In The Implementation.

Meta-design Is Much More Difficult Than Design; It's Easier To Draw Something Than To Explain How To Draw It.

People Who Are More Than Casually Interested In Computers Should Have At Least Some Idea Of What The Underlying Hardware Is Like. Otherwise The Programs They Write Will Be Pretty Weird.