The Designer Of A New Kind Of

These Machines Have No Common Sense; They Have Not Yet Learned To "think," And They Do Exactly As They Are Told, No More And No Less. This Fact Is The Hardest Concept To Grasp When One First Tries To Use A Computer.

Random Numbers Should Not Be Generated With A Method Chosen At Random

... The Designer Of A New System Must Not Only Be The Implementor And The First Large-scale User; The Designer Should Also Write The First User Manual. ... If I Had Not Participated Fully In All These Activities, Literally Hundreds Of Improvements Would Never Have Been Made, Because I Would Never Have Thought Of Them Or Perceived Why They Were Important.

In Fact What I Would Like To See Is Thousands Of Computer Scientists Let Loose To Do Whatever They Want. That's What Really Advances The Field.

Computers Are Good At Following Instructions, But Not At Reading Your Mind.