The Important Thing, Once You Have Enough

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.

Science Is What We Understand Well Enough To Explain To A Computer. Art Is Everything Else We Do.

Programs Are Meant To Be Read By Humans And Only Incidentally For Computers To Execute.

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 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."