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How can you own numbers? Numbers belong to the world.
Donald Knuth
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Donald Knuth
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: January 10
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Computer Scientist
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Historian Of Mathematics
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Milwaukee City
Wisconsin
Donald E. Knuth
Don Knuth
Donald Ervin Knuth
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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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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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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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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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Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.
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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 define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof.
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Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random
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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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People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.
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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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It is much more rewarding to do more with less.
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The designer of a new kind of system must participate fully in the implementation.
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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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Beware of bugs in the above code I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
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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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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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The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.
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My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the text into my machine.
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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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