It Is Much More Rewarding To Do

We Should Continually Be Striving To Transform Every Art Into A Science: In The Process, We Advance The Art.

Computers Are Good At Following Instructions, But Not At Reading Your Mind.

... 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.

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

Whenever The C++ Language Designers Had Two Competing Ideas As To How They Should Solve Some Problem, They Said, "ok, We'll Do Them Both". So The Language Is Too Baroque For My Taste.