Programs Are Meant To Be Read By

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.

The Most Important Thing In The Programming Language Is The Name. A Language Will Not Succeed Without A Good Name. I Have Recently Invented A Very Good Name And Now I Am Looking For A Suitable Language.

I Remember That Mathematicians Were Telling Me In The 1960s That They Would Recognize Computer Science As A Mature Discipline When It Had 1,000 Deep Algorithms. I Think We've Probably Reached 500.

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

Programmers Waste Enormous Amounts Of Time Thinking About, Or Worrying About, The Speed Of Noncritical Parts Of Their Programs, And These Attempts At Efficiency Actually Have A Strong Negative Impact When Debugging And Maintenance Are Considered. We Should Forget About Small Efficiencies, Say About 97% Of The Time: Premature Optimization Is The Root Of All Evil. Yet We Should Not Pass Up Our Opportunities In That Critical 3%.