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Donald Knuth
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: January 10
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I'm obsessively detail-oriented.
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If you find that you're spending almost all your time on theory, start turning some attention to practical things it will improve your theories. If you find that you're spending almost all your time on practice, start turning some attention to theoretical things it will improve your practice.
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An algorithm must be seen to be believed.
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The designer of a new kind of system must participate fully in the implementation.
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Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour.
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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 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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In fact, my main conclusion after spending ten years of my life working on the TEX project is that software is hard. It's harder than anything else I've ever had to do.
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It is much more rewarding to do more with less.
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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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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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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. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%
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There's ways to amuse yourself while doing things and thats how I look at efficency.
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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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Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
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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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