“I actually hate programming, but I love solving problems.”
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“Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.”
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“Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems”
Source: SCUM MANIFESTO (1967), p. 6.

“There are people who actually like programming. I don't understand why they like programming.”
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Source: Linear programming and extensions (1963), p. vii.

“One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer.”

“What I cannot create, I do not understand.Know how to solve every problem that has been solved.”
on his blackboard at the time of death in February 1988; from a photo in the Caltech archives http://archives.caltech.edu/pictures/1.10-29.jpg