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Donald Knuth
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: January 10
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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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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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Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour.
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I've never been a good estimator of how long things are going to take.
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My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the text into my machine.
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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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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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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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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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We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.
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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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It is much more rewarding to do more with less.
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Beware of bugs in the above code I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
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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 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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Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random
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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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An algorithm must be seen to be believed.
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