Meta-design Is Much More Difficult

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

I Have A Hunch That The Unknown Sequences Of Dna Will Decode Into Copyright Notices And Patent Protections.

Computer Programming Is An Art, Because It Applies Accumulated Knowledge To The World, Because It Requires Skill And Ingenuity, And Especially Because It Produces Objects Of Beauty. A Programmer Who Subconsciously Views Himself As An Artist Will Enjoy What He Does And Will Do It Better.

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.