Meta-design Is Much More Difficult Than Design;

Programming Is The Art Of Telling Another Human Being What One Wants The Computer To Do.

In Fact, My Main Conclusion After Spending Ten Years Of My Life Working On The Tex Project Is That Software Is Hard. It's Harder Than Anything Else I've Ever Had To Do.

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.

The Sun Comes Up Just About As Often As It Goes Down, In The Long Run, But This Doesn't Make Its Motion Random.

I Currently Use Ubuntu Linux, On A Standalone Laptop - It Has No Internet Connection. I Occasionally Carry Flash Memory Drives Between This Machine And The Macs That I Use For Network Surfing And Graphics; But I Trust My Family Jewels Only To Linux.