“Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.”

“The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.”

“Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.”

“Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.”

“It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.”

“The worlds most successful people didnt wait for someone else to pick them, but instead, they picked themselves.”

“Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.”

“Want something else more than success. Success is a lovely thing, but your desire to say something, your worth, and your identity shouldnt rely on it, because its not guaranteed and its not permane...”

“Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get. ”

“...luxury is the enemy of observation, a costly indulgence that induces such a good feeling that you notice nothing. Luxury spoils and infantilizes you and prevents you from knowing the world. That...”

“And yet for aught I see, they are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing. It is no mean happiness, therefore, to be seated in the mean. Superfluity comes sooner by whit...”

“Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.”

“If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.”

“I have a renewed commitment to elegance, she said, in case you think I'm just spending money for the fun of it. ”