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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
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Donald E. Knuth
Don Knuth
Donald Ervin Knuth
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The sun comes up just about as often as it goes down, in the long run, but this doesn't make its motion random.
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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.
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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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It would be nice if we could design a virtual reality in Hyperbolic Space, and meet each other there.
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The designer of a new kind of system must participate fully in the implementation.
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A list is only as strong as its weakest link.
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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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I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof.
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I've never been a good estimator of how long things are going to take.
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I can’t go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu.
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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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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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An algorithm must be seen to be believed.
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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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