Email Is A Wonderful Thing For People

The Best Theory Is Inspired By Practice.

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

The Best Programs Are Written So That Computing Machines Can Perform Them Quickly And So That Human Beings Can Understand Them Clearly. A Programmer Is Ideally An Essayist Who Works With Traditional Aesthetic And Literary Forms As Well As Mathematical Concepts, To Communicate The Way That An Algorithm Works And To Convince A Reader That The Results Will Be Correct.

I Can't Be As Confident About Computer Science As I Can About Biology. Biology Easily Has 500 Years Of Exciting Problems To Work On. It's At That Level.

My First Program Taught Me A Lot About The Errors That I Was Going To Be Making In The Future, And Also About How To Find Errors. That's Sort Of The Story Of My Life, Making Errors And Trying To Recover From Them. I Try To Get Things Correct. I Probably Obsess About Not Making Too Many Mistakes.