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There's ways to amuse yourself while doing things and thats how I look at efficency.
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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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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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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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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Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
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