The Best Practice Is Inspired By Theory.

When You Write A Program, Think Of It Primarily As A Work Of Literature. You're Trying To Write Something That Human Beings Are Going To Read. Don't Think Of It Primarily As Something A Computer Is Going To Follow. The More Effective You Are At Making Your Program Readable, The More Effective It's Going To Be: You'll Understand It Today, You'll Understand It Next Week, And Your Successors Who Are Going To Maintain And Modify It Will Understand It.

The Hardest Thing Is To Go To Sleep At Night, When There Are So Many Urgent Things Needing To Be Done. A Huge Gap Exists Between What We Know Is Possible With Today's Machines And What We Have So Far Been Able To Finish.

The Best Practice Is Inspired By Theory.

I Try To Learn Certain Areas Of Computer Science Exhaustively; Then I Try To Digest That Knowledge Into A Form That Is Accessible To People Who Don't Have Time For Such Study.

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.