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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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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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Beware of bugs in the above code I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
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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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Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
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A mathematical formula should never be owned by anybody! Mathematics belong to God.
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How can you own numbers? Numbers belong to the world.
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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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