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My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the text into my machine.
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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Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
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The best theory is inspired by practice.
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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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I'm obsessively detail-oriented.
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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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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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How can you own numbers? Numbers belong to the world.
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I remember that mathematicians were telling me in the 1960s that they would recognize computer science as a mature discipline when it had 1,000 deep algorithms. I think we've probably reached 500.
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The sun comes up just about as often as it goes down, in the long run, but this doesn't make its motion random.
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Beware of bugs in the above code I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
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A list is only as strong as its weakest link.
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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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AI has by now succeeded in doing essentially everything that requires 'thinking' but has failed to do most of what people and animals do 'without thinking'-that, somehow, is much harder.
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The best practice is inspired by theory.
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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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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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Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.
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