"We will perhaps eventually be writing only small modules which are identified
by name as they are used to build larger ones, so that devices like
indentation, rather than delimiters, might become feasible for expressing local
structure in the source language."

-- Donald E. Knuth, "Structured Programming with goto Statements",
   Computing Surveys, Vol 6 No 4, Dec. 1974


I hope to die before I have to use Microsoft Word.
(Donald E. Knuth, 2001-09-21 in Tuebingen)


"We should forget about small efficiencies, about 97% of the time.
Premature optimization is the root of all evil."