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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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There's ways to amuse yourself while doing things and thats how I look at efficency.
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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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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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We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%
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Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour.
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Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.
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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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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 theory is inspired by practice.
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I've never been a good estimator of how long things are going to take.
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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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The designer of a new kind of system must participate fully in the implementation.
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A mathematical formula should never be owned by anybody! Mathematics belong to God.
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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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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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An algorithm must be seen to be believed.
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Beware of bugs in the above code I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
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Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random
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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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How can you own numbers? Numbers belong to the world.
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