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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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Donald Knuth
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: January 10
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Milwaukee City
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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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How can you own numbers? Numbers belong to the world.
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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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