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A mathematical formula should never be owned by anybody! Mathematics belong to God.
Donald Knuth
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Donald Knuth
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: January 10
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Milwaukee City
Wisconsin
Donald E. Knuth
Don Knuth
Donald Ervin Knuth
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How can you own numbers? Numbers belong to the world.
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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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I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.
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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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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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