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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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We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.
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The designer of a new kind of system must participate fully in the implementation.
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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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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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The best practice is inspired by theory.
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I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof.
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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
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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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Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.
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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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Beware of bugs in the above code I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
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Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.
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Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour.
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A mathematical formula should never be owned by anybody! Mathematics belong to God.
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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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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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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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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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A list is only as strong as its weakest link.
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