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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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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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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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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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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 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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I've never been a good estimator of how long things are going to take.
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The designer of a new kind of system must participate fully in the implementation.
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Beware of bugs in the above code I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
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A mathematical formula should never be owned by anybody! Mathematics belong to God.
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Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.
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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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I have a hunch that the unknown sequences of DNA will decode into copyright notices and patent protections.
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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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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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We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.
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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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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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I can’t go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu.
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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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