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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
Donald Knuth
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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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The best theory is inspired by practice.
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In fact, my main conclusion after spending ten years of my life working on the TEX project is that software is hard. It's harder than anything else I've ever had to do.
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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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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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How can you own numbers? Numbers belong to the world.
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