Programs Are Meant To Be

The Sun Comes Up Just About As Often As It Goes Down, In The Long Run, But This Doesn't Make Its Motion Random.

Programs Are Meant To Be Read By Humans And Only Incidentally For Computers To Execute.

Email Is A Wonderful Thing For People Whose Role In Life Is To Be On Top Of Things. But Not For Me; My Role Is To Be On The Bottom Of Things. What I Do Takes Long Hours Of Studying And Uninterruptible Concentration.

These Machines Have No Common Sense; They Have Not Yet Learned To "think," And They Do Exactly As They Are Told, No More And No Less. This Fact Is The Hardest Concept To Grasp When One First Tries To Use A Computer.

For His Major Contributions To The Analysis Of Algorithms And The Design Of Programming Languages, And In Particular For His Contributions To The "art Of Computer Programming" Through His Well-known Books In A Continuous Series By This Title.