We Should Forget About Small Efficiencies, Say

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.

By Understanding A Machine-oriented Language, The Programmer Will Tend To Use A Much More Efficient Method; It Is Much Closer To Reality.

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.

An Algorithm Must Be Seen To Be Believed.

People Think That Computer Science Is The Art Of Geniuses But The Actual Reality Is The Opposite, Just Many People Doing Things That Build On Each Other, Like A Wall Of Mini Stones.