I'm Obsessively Detail-oriented.

[the Euclidean Algorithm Is] The Granddaddy Of All Algorithms, Because It Is The Oldest Nontrivial Algorithm That Has Survived To The Present Day.

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

My General Working Style Is To Write Everything First With Pencil And Paper, Sitting Beside A Big Wastebasket. Then I Use Emacs To Enter The Text Into My Machine.

... 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.

The Most Important Thing In The Programming Language Is The Name. A Language Will Not Succeed Without A Good Name. I Have Recently Invented A Very Good Name And Now I Am Looking For A Suitable Language.