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I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof.

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Donald Knuth
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: January 10
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A list is only as strong as its weakest link.
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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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The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.
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The best practice is inspired by theory.
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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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An algorithm must be seen to be believed.
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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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A mathematical formula should never be owned by anybody! Mathematics belong to God.
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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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We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.
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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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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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People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on each other, like a wall of mini stones.
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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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It is much more rewarding to do more with less.
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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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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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