I don’t care if you’re a friend or a foe, I’m still gonna be me.

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.

The beauty of mathematics lies in its ability to reveal hidden symmetries and truths.

You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.