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

Trees Sprout Up Just About Everywhere In Computer Science.

I Decry The Current Tendency To Seek Patents On Algorithms. There Are Better Ways To Earn A Living Than To Prevent Other People From Making Use Of One's Contributions To Computer Science.

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%.

The Psychological Profiling [of A Programmer] Is Mostly The Ability To Shift Levels Of Abstraction, From Low Level To High Level. To See Something In The Small And To See Something In The Large.