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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 Important Thing, Once You Have Enough To Eat And A Nice House, Is What You Can Do For Others, What You Can Contribute To The Enterprise As A Whole.

Random Numbers Should Not Be Generated With A Method Chosen At Random

... The Designer Of A New System Must Not Only Be The Implementor And The First Large-scale User; The Designer Should Also Write The First User Manual. ... If I Had Not Participated Fully In All These Activities, Literally Hundreds Of Improvements Would Never Have Been Made, Because I Would Never Have Thought Of Them Or Perceived Why They Were Important.

The Best Theory Is Inspired By Practice.