The happiest moment i've ever felt was that moment when i discovered my ability to create.

Give a man a program, frustrate him for a day.
Teach a man to program, frustrate him for a lifetime.

The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user.

The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.

Platforms don't look like how they work and don't work like how they look.

Tests are stories we tell the next generation of programmers on a project.