Optimization Hinders Evolution.

I Think That It's Extraordinarily Important That We In Computer Science Keep Fun In Computing. When It Started Out, It Was An Awful Lot Of Fun. Of Course, The Paying Customers Got Shafted Every Now And Then, And After A While We Began To Take Their Complaints Seriously. We Began To Feel As If We Really Were Responsible For The Successful, Error-free Perfect Use Of These Machines. I Don't Think We Are. I Think We're Responsible For Stretching Them, Setting Them Off In New Directions, And Keeping Fun In The House. I Hope The Field Of Computer Science Never Loses Its Sense Of Fun.

When A Professor Insists Computer Science Is X But Not Y, Have Compassion For His Graduate Students.

It Is Better To Have 100 Functions Operate On One Data Structure Than To Have 10 Functions Operate On 10 Data Structures.

Optimization Hinders Evolution. Everything Should Be Built Top-down, Except The First Time. Simplicity Does Not Precede Complexity, But Follows It.

Once You Understand How To Write A Program Get Someone Else To Write It.