Richard Hamming — American Mathematician born on February 11, 1915, died on January 07, 1998

Richard Wesley Hamming was an American mathematician whose work had many implications for computer science and telecommunications. His contributions include the Hamming code, the Hamming window, Hamming numbers, sphere-packing and the Hamming distance... (wikipedia)

The emotion at the point of technical breakthrough is better than wine, women and song put together.
Good scientists will fight the system rather than learn to work with the system.
The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
If you don't work on important problems, it's not likely that you'll do important work.
If you read all the time what other people have done, you will the think the way they thought.