Computers Are Good At Following Instructions, But

There's Ways To Amuse Yourself While Doing Things And Thats How I Look At Efficency.

We Should Continually Be Striving To Transform Every Art Into A Science: In The Process, We Advance The Art.

... 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.

If You Optimize Everything, You Will Always Be Unhappy.

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.