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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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It would be nice if we could design a virtual reality in Hyperbolic Space, and meet each other there.
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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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There's ways to amuse yourself while doing things and thats how I look at efficency.
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I try to learn certain areas of computer science exhaustively then I try to digest that knowledge into a form that is accessible to people who don't have time for such study.
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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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We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.
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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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The best theory is inspired by practice.
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The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.
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The psychological profiling [of a programmer] is mostly the ability to shift levels of abstraction, from low level to high level. To see something in the small and to see something in the large.
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Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour.
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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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How can you own numbers? Numbers belong to the world.
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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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