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An algorithm must be seen to be believed.
Donald Knuth
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Donald Knuth
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: January 10
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Milwaukee City
Wisconsin
Donald E. Knuth
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Donald Ervin Knuth
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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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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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I have a hunch that the unknown sequences of DNA will decode into copyright notices and patent protections.
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A mathematical formula should never be owned by anybody! Mathematics belong to God.
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It is much more rewarding to do more with less.
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I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof.
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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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Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour.
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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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It would be nice if we could design a virtual reality in Hyperbolic Space, and meet each other there.
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In fact, my main conclusion after spending ten years of my life working on the TEX project is that software is hard. It's harder than anything else I've ever had to do.
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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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