Donald Knuth

To me, it looks more or less like the hardware designers have run out of ideas and that they're trying to pass the blame for the future demise of Moore's Law to the software writers by giving us machines that work faster only on a few key benchmarks!

Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.

I'm obsessively detail-oriented.

I've never been a good estimator of how long things are going to take.

The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located.

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.