Ability Quote by Donald Knuth

Rather than use the term 'profiling,' the profilers prefer to say they engage in criminal investigative analysis. That is because, besides developing profiles, the…

— Ronald Kessler

Psychology motivates the quality of analysis and puts it to use. Psychology is the driver and analysis is the road map.

— Ed Seykota

Programmers are as emotional and irrational as normal people

— Douglas Crockford

The computer takes up where psychoanalysis left off. It takes the ideas of a decentered self and makes it more concrete by modeling mind…

— Sherry Turkle

Measurement and categorization are, of course, fundamental to any scientific endeavor, but the implications of being able to identify psychopaths are as much practical…

— Robert D. Hare

Obviously, stats are important tools, but I think there's something behind those things; somewhere along the way, you've got to try to look inside…

— Jerry West

People are very complex. And for a psychologist, you get fascinated by the complexity of human beings, and that is what I have lived…

— Daniel Kahneman

Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.

— Anonymous

All programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery especially attracts those who believe in happy endings and fairy godmothers. Perhaps the hundreds of nitty…

— Fred Brooks

The effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities of a competent programmer.

— Edsger Dijkstra

The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity, speed, ingenuity…

— Randall E. Stross

“Anyone who has ever seen a programmer at work... knows that programming itself, if the programmer is given the chance to do it his…

— Dave Hoover