The public is wonderfully tolerant, it forgives everything except genius.
"A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever."
The beauty of theoretical computer science lies in its ability to abstract and generalize, turning specific problems into universal truths.
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think—rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.