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Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
Donald Knuth
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Donald Knuth
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: January 10
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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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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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My first program taught me a lot about the errors that I was going to be making in the future, and also about how to find errors. That's sort of the story of my life, making errors and trying to recover from them. I try to get things correct. I probably obsess about not making too many mistakes.
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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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Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.
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Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour.
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The designer of a new kind of system must participate fully in the implementation.
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Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.
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TeX has found at least one bug in every Pascal compiler it's been run on, I think, and at least two in every C compiler
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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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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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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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The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.
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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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I have a hunch that the unknown sequences of DNA will decode into copyright notices and patent protections.
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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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