If Debugging Is The Process

There Should Be No Such Thing As Boring Mathematics.

Computer Science Has As Much To Do With Computers As Astronomy Has To Do With Telescopes.

When I Came Back From Munich, It Was September, And I Was Professor Of Mathematics At The Eindhoven University Of Technology. Later I Learned That I Had Been The Department's Third Choice, After Two Numerical Analysts Had Turned The Invitation Down; The Decision To Invite Me Had Not Been An Easy One, On The One Hand Because I Had Not Really Studied Mathematics, And On The Other Hand Because Of My Sandals, My Beard And My "arrogance" (whatever That May Be).

Mathematicians Are Like Managers - They Want Improvement Without Change.

A Convincing Demonstration Of Correctness Being Impossible As Long As The Mechanism Is Regarded As A Black Box, Our Only Hope Lies In Not Regarding The Mechanism As A Black Box.