We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
"You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth."
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 thrill of discovery never gets old.
You are a victim of the rules you live by.
Don’t just chase money—chase excellence, and money will follow.