How Can You Own Numbers?

Let Us Change Our Traditional Attitude To The Construction Of Programs. Instead Of Imagining That Our Main Task Is To Instruct A Computer What To Do, Let Us Concentrate Rather On Explaining To Human Beings What We Want A Computer To Do.

Science Is What We Understand Well Enough To Explain To A Computer. Art Is Everything Else We Do.

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 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.

The Whole Thing That Makes A Mathematician’s Life Worthwhile Is That He Gets The Grudging Admiration Of Three Or Four Colleagues.