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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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Donald Knuth
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: January 10
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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 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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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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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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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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It would be nice if we could design a virtual reality in Hyperbolic Space, and meet each other there.
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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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