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I have a hunch that the unknown sequences of DNA will decode into copyright notices and patent protections.

Donald Knuth

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Donald Knuth
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: January 10
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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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Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
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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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I've never been a good estimator of how long things are going to take.
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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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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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The best theory is inspired by practice.
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