In this sense, we should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art. - Donald Knuth

Let's face it, if there were 10 people like me in the world, we wouldn't have time to read each other's books.

The real problem is that programmers have spent far too much time worrying about efficiency in the wrong places and at the wrong times; premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming.

The psychological profiling [of a programmer] is mostly the ability to shift levels of abstraction, from low level to high level. To see something in the small and to see something in the large.