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Donald Knuth
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: January 10
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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've never been a good estimator of how long things are going to take.
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The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent.
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I think people who write programs do have at least a glimmer of extra insight into the nature of God... because creating a program often means that you have to create a small universe
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I'm obsessively detail-oriented.
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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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The designer of a new kind of system must participate fully in the implementation.
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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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Computer programming is an art, because it applies accumulated knowledge to the world, because it requires skill and ingenuity, and especially because it produces objects of beauty. A programmer who subconsciously views himself as an artist will enjoy what he does and will do it better.
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The best practice is inspired by theory.
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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.
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We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.
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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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The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.
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There's ways to amuse yourself while doing things and thats how I look at efficency.
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An algorithm must be seen to be believed.
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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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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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How can you own numbers? Numbers belong to the world.
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