Random Numbers Should Not Be Generated With

Premature Optimization Is The Root Of All Evil.

The Manuals We Got From Ibm Would Show Examples Of Programs And I Knew I Could Do A Heck Of A Lot Better Than That. So I Thought I Might Have Some Talent.

I've Never Been A Good Estimator Of How Long Things Are Going To Take.

In Fact What I Would Like To See Is Thousands Of Computer Scientists Let Loose To Do Whatever They Want. That's What Really Advances The Field.

The Book Dynamic Programming By Richard Bellman Is An Important, Pioneering Work In Which A Group Of Problems Is Collected Together At The End Of Some Chapters Under The Heading "exercises And Research Problems," With Extremely Trivial Questions Appearing In The Midst Of Deep, Unsolved Problems. It Is Rumored That Someone Once Asked Dr. Bellman How To Tell The Exercises Apart From The Research Problems, And He Replied: "if You Can Solve It, It Is An Exercise; Otherwise It's A Research Problem."