The psychological profiling [of a programmer] is mostly the ability to shift levels of abstraction, from low level to high level. To see something in the small and to see something in the large.

— Donald Knuth, An interview with Donald Knuth (1996)

Source: http://www.drdobbs.com/an-interview-with-donald-knuth/184409858

Interview by Jack Woehr in Dr. Dobb's Journal (April 1996).

Topics: programming, software design