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It is much more rewarding to do more with less.
Donald Knuth
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Donald Knuth
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: January 10
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Computer Scientist
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Historian Of Mathematics
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Milwaukee City
Wisconsin
Donald E. Knuth
Don Knuth
Donald Ervin Knuth
D.E.K.
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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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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.
Donald Knuth
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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The best practice is inspired by theory.
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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. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%
Donald Knuth
I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof.
Donald Knuth
An algorithm must be seen to be believed.
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I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics but I trust my family jewels only to Linux.
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A mathematical formula should never be owned by anybody! Mathematics belong to God.
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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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Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
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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.
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My first program taught me a lot about the errors that I was going to be making in the future, and also about how to find errors. That's sort of the story of my life, making errors and trying to recover from them. I try to get things correct. I probably obsess about not making too many mistakes.
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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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Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random
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Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour.
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The best theory is inspired by practice.
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I'm obsessively detail-oriented.
Donald Knuth
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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