The Best Theory Is Inspired By Practice.

I Can't Be As Confident About Computer Science As I Can About Biology. Biology Easily Has 500 Years Of Exciting Problems To Work On. It's At That Level.

Always Remember, However, That There’s Usually A Simpler And Better Way To Do Something Than The First Way That Pops Into Your Head.

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

How Can You Own Numbers? Numbers Belong To The World.

My First Program Taught Me A Lot About The Errors That I Was Going To Be Making In The Future, And Also About How To Find Errors. That's Sort Of The Story Of My Life, Making Errors And Trying To Recover From Them. I Try To Get Things Correct. I Probably Obsess About Not Making Too Many Mistakes.