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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.

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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I can’t go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu.
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Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour.
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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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A list is only as strong as its weakest link.
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There's ways to amuse yourself while doing things and thats how I look at efficency.
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How can you own numbers? Numbers belong to the world.
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I'm obsessively detail-oriented.
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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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Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.
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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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An algorithm must be seen to be believed.
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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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Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.
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I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof.
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