It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.

You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'.

That's mostly what the Internet is, just passing the time. But unfortunately you are dealing with words that can have meaning.

If you have been suffering with physical ailments or even a spiritual emptiness, I want to share with you what I know to be true: The more love and reverence you give your body, the better you will feel.

One of the interesting applications of symbolic systems is artificial intelligence, and I spent some time thinking about how to create a brain that operates the way ours does.

I mean, when you get down to very low numbers of nuclear weapons, and you contemplate going to zero, how do you deal with the reality of that technology being available to almost any country that seeks to pursue it? And what conditions do you put in place?