Quote by Donald Knuth
"Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the individual steps are easy, but the combination of steps is elaborate and demands care."
More from Donald Knuth
"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."
"Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do."
"Programming is the art of telling another human what one wants the computer to do."
"The most important principle for the good algorithm designer is to refuse to be content."