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Beware of bugs in the above code I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
Donald Knuth
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Donald Knuth
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: January 10
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Milwaukee City
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Donald E. Knuth
Don Knuth
Donald Ervin Knuth
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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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If you find that you're spending almost all your time on theory, start turning some attention to practical things it will improve your theories. If you find that you're spending almost all your time on practice, start turning some attention to theoretical things it will improve your practice.
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I've never been a good estimator of how long things are going to take.
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By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method it is much closer to reality.
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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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The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.
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An algorithm must be seen to be believed.
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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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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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How can you own numbers? Numbers belong to the world.
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It is much more rewarding to do more with less.
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A list is only as strong as its weakest link.
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The best theory is inspired by practice.
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