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Donald Knuth
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Donald Knuth
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: January 10
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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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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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A list is only as strong as its weakest link.
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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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Meta-design is much more difficult than design it's easier to draw something than to explain how to draw it.
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The best theory is inspired by practice.
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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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I'm obsessively detail-oriented.
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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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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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The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.
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I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.
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I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof.
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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 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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I can’t go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu.
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I've never been a good estimator of how long things are going to take.
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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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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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