Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick.

Code is not like other how-computers-work books. It doesn't have big color illustrations of disk drives with arrows showing how the data sweeps into the computer. Code has no drawings of trains carrying a cargo of zeros and ones. Metaphors and similes are wonderful literary devices but they do nothing but obscure the beauty of technology.

Computer monitors can operate in many different video modes. In most cases, the decision about how many pixels and colors to display is yours - but not always.

Everything that can be invented, has been invented. - 1899.

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.