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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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The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language.
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A mathematical formula should never be owned by anybody! Mathematics belong to God.
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I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof.
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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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The designer of a new kind of system must participate fully in the implementation.
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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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Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
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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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The sun comes up just about as often as it goes down, in the long run, but this doesn't make its motion random.
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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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I try to learn certain areas of computer science exhaustively then I try to digest that knowledge into a form that is accessible to people who don't have time for such study.
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Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random
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The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located.
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I'm obsessively detail-oriented.
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The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.
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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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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've never been a good estimator of how long things are going to take.
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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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It would be nice if we could design a virtual reality in Hyperbolic Space, and meet each other there.
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