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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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Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.
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Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour.
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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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Meta-design is much more difficult than design it's easier to draw something than to explain how to draw it.
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Computer programming is an art, because it applies accumulated knowledge to the world, because it requires skill and ingenuity, and especially because it produces objects of beauty. A programmer who subconsciously views himself as an artist will enjoy what he does and will do it better.
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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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The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent.
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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 have a hunch that the unknown sequences of DNA will decode into copyright notices and patent protections.
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I can’t go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu.
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A list is only as strong as its weakest link.
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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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The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.
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The designer of a new kind of system must participate fully in the implementation.
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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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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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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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