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There's ways to amuse yourself while doing things and thats how I look at efficency.

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Donald Knuth
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: January 10
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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've never been a good estimator of how long things are going to take.
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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 enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.
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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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Science is knowledge which we understand so well that we can teach it to a computer and if we don't fully understand something, it is an art to deal with it.
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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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