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Donald Knuth Inspirational Quotes (47)

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The best theory is inspired by practice.
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AI has by now succeeded in doing essentially everything that requires 'thinking' but has failed to do most of what people and animals do 'without thinking'-that, somehow, is much harder.
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I can’t go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu.
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It is much more rewarding to do more with less.
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Meta-design is much more difficult than design it's easier to draw something than to explain how to draw it.
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Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.
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I remember that mathematicians were telling me in the 1960s that they would recognize computer science as a mature discipline when it had 1,000 deep algorithms. I think we've probably reached 500.
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I've never been a good estimator of how long things are going to take.
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The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language.
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I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics but I trust my family jewels only to Linux.
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A mathematical formula should never be owned by anybody! Mathematics belong to God.
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Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.
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How can you own numbers? Numbers belong to the world.
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I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.
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The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.
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Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.
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People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.
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Science is knowledge which we understand so well that we can teach it to a computer and if we don't fully understand something, it is an art to deal with it.
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It would be nice if we could design a virtual reality in Hyperbolic Space, and meet each other there.
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We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%
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Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been prepared with the help of a computer.
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The sun comes up just about as often as it goes down, in the long run, but this doesn't make its motion random.
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There's ways to amuse yourself while doing things and thats how I look at efficency.
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Beware of bugs in the above code I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
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