An Algorithm Must Be Seen To Be

Trees Sprout Up Just About Everywhere In Computer Science.

The Hardest Thing Is To Go To Sleep At Night, When There Are So Many Urgent Things Needing To Be Done. A Huge Gap Exists Between What We Know Is Possible With Today's Machines And What We Have So Far Been Able To Finish.

... The Designer Of A New System Must Not Only Be The Implementor And The First Large-scale User; The Designer Should Also Write The First User Manual. ... If I Had Not Participated Fully In All These Activities, Literally Hundreds Of Improvements Would Never Have Been Made, Because I Would Never Have Thought Of Them Or Perceived Why They Were Important.

I Think People Who Write Programs Do Have At Least A Glimmer Of Extra Insight Into The Nature Of God... Because Creating A Program Often Means That You Have To Create A Small Universe

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