An algorithm must be seen to be believed.
From Donald Knuth
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.
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
There's ways to amuse yourself while doing things and thats how I look at efficency.
I've never been a good estimator of how long things are going to take.
A list is only as strong as its weakest link.
God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue.
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.
The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent.
The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located.
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