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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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An algorithm must be seen to be believed.
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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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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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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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