“My first program taught me a lot about the errors that I was going to be making in the future, and also about how to find errors. That’s sort of the story of my life, making errors and trying to recover from them. I try to get things correct. I probably obsess about not making too many mistakes.”

Donald E. Knuth

“Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.”

H. Abelson and G. Sussman