Programming In Basic Causes Brain Damage.

Progress Is Possible Only If We Train Ourselves To Think About Programs Without Thinking Of Them As Pieces Of Executable Code.

Probably I Am Very Naive, But I Also Think I Prefer To Remain So, At Least For The Time Being And Perhaps For The Rest Of My Life.

The Traditional Mathematician Recognizes And Appreciates Mathematical Elegance When He Sees It. I Propose To Go One Step Further, And To Consider Elegance An Essential Ingredient Of Mathematics: If It Is Clumsy, It Is Not Mathematics.

Programming Is One Of The Most Difficult Branches Of Applied Mathematics; The Poorer Mathematicians Had Better Remain Pure Mathematicians.

Thanks To The Greatly Improved Possibility Of Communication, We Overrate Its Importance. Even Stronger, We Underrate The Importance Of Isolation.