It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between...
Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it....
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the...
There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean I've felt regret but I've also...
My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older...
Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high...
I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids like my mom and my sister do.
