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The best practice is inspired by theory.
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
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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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There's ways to amuse yourself while doing things and thats how I look at efficency.
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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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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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A list is only as strong as its weakest link.
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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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How can you own numbers? Numbers belong to the world.
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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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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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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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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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Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour.
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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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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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The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.
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