Writing a book is a little more difficult than writing a technical paper, but writing software is a lot more difficult than writing a book. – Donald Knuth

Knuth writes, Wanted: A Name For High-Tech Grief. My vote: fragged¹.

1. Succinct, and a geek reference to Doom/Quake ↩

Whenever the C++ language designers had two competing ideas as to how they should solve some problem, they said, “OK, we’ll do them both”. So the language is too baroque for my taste. – Donald Knuth

I firmly believe that computer science advances by thousands of people solving small problems, which go together and create a massive edifice. Every year that goes by, hardly anything is done that appears to be a milestone worthy of mass attention; yet after five or ten years pass, the whole field has changed significantly. – Donald Knuth

A set of free, online lectures from Donald Knuth. Some interesting topics from one of the pilars of CompSci rigor.