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I'm obsessively detail-oriented.

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
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How can you own numbers? Numbers belong to the world.
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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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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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Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour.
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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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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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There's ways to amuse yourself while doing things and thats how I look at efficency.
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An algorithm must be seen to be believed.
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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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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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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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Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.
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Beware of bugs in the above code I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
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The designer of a new kind of system must participate fully in the implementation.
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A list is only as strong as its weakest link.
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The best practice is inspired by theory.
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It is much more rewarding to do more with less.
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I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof.
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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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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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