[the Euclidean Algorithm Is] The Granddaddy Of

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.

The Important Thing, Once You Have Enough To Eat And A Nice House, Is What You Can Do For Others, What You Can Contribute To The Enterprise As A Whole.

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%

I Define Unix As 30 Definitions Of Regular Expressions Living Under One Roof.

Tex Has Found At Least One Bug In Every Pascal Compiler It's Been Run On, I Think, And At Least Two In Every C Compiler