Several People Have Told Me

Don't Blame Me For The Fact That Competent Programming, As I View It As An Intellectual Possibility, Will Be Too Difficult For The Average Programmer, You Must Not Fall Into The Trap Of Rejecting A Surgical Technique Because It Is Beyond The Capabilities Of The Barber In His Shop Around The Corner.

If In Physics There's Something You Don't Understand, You Can Always Hide Behind The Uncharted Depths Of Nature. You Can Always Blame God. You Didn't Make It So Complex Yourself. But If Your Program Doesn't Work, There Is No One To Hide Behind. You Cannot Hide Behind An Obstinate Nature. If It Doesn't Work, You've Messed Up.

The Effort Of Using Machines To Mimic The Human Mind Has Always Struck Me As Rather Silly. I Would Rather Use Them To Mimic Something Better.

When I Came Back From Munich, It Was September, And I Was Professor Of Mathematics At The Eindhoven University Of Technology. Later I Learned That I Had Been The Department's Third Choice, After Two Numerical Analysts Had Turned The Invitation Down; The Decision To Invite Me Had Not Been An Easy One, On The One Hand Because I Had Not Really Studied Mathematics, And On The Other Hand Because Of My Sandals, My Beard And My "arrogance" (whatever That May Be).

Thank Goodness We Don't Have Only Serious Problems, But Ridiculous Ones As Well.