A mathematical formula should never be 'owned' by anybody! Mathematics belong to God.
Always remember, however, that there's usually a simpler and better way to do something than the first way that pops into your head.
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Computer programming is an art, because it applies accumulated knowledge to the world, because it requires skill and ingenuity, and especially because it produces objects of beauty. A programmer who subconsciously views himself as an artist will enjoy what he does and will do it better.
Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.
I can't go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu.
I have a hunch that the unknown sequences of DNA will decode into copyright notices and patent protections.
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.
If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
It is much more rewarding to do more with less.
Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.
Premature optimization is the root of all evil.
Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random.
Science is everything we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else.
The best theory is inspired by practice.
The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.
The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done.
The important thing, once you have enough to eat and a nice house, is what you can do for others, what you can contribute to the enterprise as a whole.
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.
The sun comes up just about as often as it goes down, in the long run, but this doesn't make its motion random.
The whole thing that makes a mathematician's life worthwhile is that he gets the grudging admiration of three or four colleagues.
There's ways to amuse yourself while doing things and thats how I look at efficency.
We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.
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