Knowledge and productivity are like compound interest. The more you know, the more you learn; the more you learn, the more you can do; the more you c….

Given two people with exactly the same ability, the one person who manages day in and day out to get in one more hour of thinking will be tremendousl….

Mathematics is an interesting intellectual sport but it should not be allowed to stand in the way of obtaining sensible information about physical pr….

Science is composed of laws which were originally based on a small, carefully selected set of observations, often not very accurately measured origin….

Put glibly: In science if you know what you are doing you should not be doing it. In engineering if you do not know what you are doing you should n….

Mathematicians stand on each others' shoulders and computer scientists stand on each others' toes..

There are wavelengths that people cannot see, there are sounds that people cannot hear, and maybe computers have thoughts that people cannot think..

It is better to do the right problem the wrong way than the wrong problem the right way..

Computer scientists stand on each other's feet..

Typing is no substitute for thinking..

He who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but he also occasionally gets clues as to what the world is and what might be import….

Once in a while a person does only one thing in his whole life, and we'll talk about that later, but a lot of times there is repetition. I claim that….

I have tried, with little success, to get some of my friends to understand my amazement that the abstraction of integers for counting is both possibl….

Perhaps the central problem we face in all of computer science is how we are to get to the situation where we build on top of the work of others rath….

Most of the time each person is immersed in the details of one special part of the whole and does not think of how what they are doing relates to the….

One of the characteristics of successful scientists is having courage. Once you get your courage up and believe that you can do important problems, t….

Often the great scientists, by turning the problem around a bit, changed a defect to an asset. For example, many scientists when they found they coul….

You can tell other people all the alibis you want. I don't mind. But to yourself try to be honest..