Computer Programming Is An Art, Because It

Whenever The C++ Language Designers Had Two Competing Ideas As To How They Should Solve Some Problem, They Said, "ok, We'll Do Them Both". So The Language Is Too Baroque For My Taste.

Programmers Waste Enormous Amounts Of Time Thinking About, Or Worrying About, The Speed Of Noncritical Parts Of Their Programs, And These Attempts At Efficiency Actually Have A Strong Negative Impact When Debugging And Maintenance Are Considered. 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%.

If You Find That You're Spending Almost All Your Time On Theory, Start Turning Some Attention To Practical Things; It Will Improve Your Theories. If You Find That You're Spending Almost All Your Time On Practice, Start Turning Some Attention To Theoretical Things; It Will Improve Your Practice.

The Whole Thing That Makes A Mathematician’s Life Worthwhile Is That He Gets The Grudging Admiration Of Three Or Four Colleagues.

The Most Important Thing In The Kitchen Is The Waste Paper Basket And It Needs To Be Centrally Located.