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Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.
Donald Knuth
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Donald Knuth
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: January 10
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Milwaukee City
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Donald E. Knuth
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Donald Ervin Knuth
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I think people who write programs do have at least a glimmer of extra insight into the nature of God... because creating a program often means that you have to create a small universe
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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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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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I've never been a good estimator of how long things are going to take.
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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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The designer of a new kind of system must participate fully in the implementation.
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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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It is much more rewarding to do more with less.
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TeX has found at least one bug in every Pascal compiler it's been run on, I think, and at least two in every C compiler
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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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How can you own numbers? Numbers belong to the world.
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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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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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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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It would be nice if we could design a virtual reality in Hyperbolic Space, and meet each other there.
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The best practice is inspired by theory.
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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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A list is only as strong as its weakest link.
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