It Is Much More Rewarding To Do

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%

It Would Be Nice If We Could Design A Virtual Reality In Hyperbolic Space, And Meet Each Other There.

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

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

Computer Programming Is An Art, Because It Applies Accumulated Knowledge To The World, Because It Requires Skill And Ingenuity, And Especially Because It Produces Objects Of Beauty. A Programmer Who Subconsciously Views Himself As An Artist Will Enjoy What He Does And Will Do It Better.