In Fact What I Would

God Is A Challenge Because There Is No Proof Of His Existence And Therefore The Search Must Continue.

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.

When You Write A Program, Think Of It Primarily As A Work Of Literature. You're Trying To Write Something That Human Beings Are Going To Read. Don't Think Of It Primarily As Something A Computer Is Going To Follow. The More Effective You Are At Making Your Program Readable, The More Effective It's Going To Be: You'll Understand It Today, You'll Understand It Next Week, And Your Successors Who Are Going To Maintain And Modify It Will Understand It.

Ai Has By Now Succeeded In Doing Essentially Everything That Requires 'thinking' But Has Failed To Do Most Of What People And Animals Do 'without Thinking'-that, Somehow, Is Much Harder.

...methods Are More Important Than Facts. The Educational Value Of A Problem Given To A Student Depends Mostly On How Often The Thought Processes That Are Invoked To Solve It Will Be Helpful In Later Situations. It Has Little To Do With How Useful The Answer To The Problem May Be. On The Other Hand, A Good Problem Must Also Motivate The Students; They Should Be Interested In Seeing The Answer. Since Students Differ So Greatly, I Cannot Expect Everyone To Like The Problems That Please Me.