The only way to do something great is to love what you do.
The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success.
A great novel is a world unto itself, with its own laws and logic.
The power of computation is not just in solving problems, but in the elegance and efficiency with which it does so.