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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
D.E.K.
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The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.
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I'm obsessively detail-oriented.
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My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the text into my machine.
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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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A list is only as strong as its weakest link.
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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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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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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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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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It would be nice if we could design a virtual reality in Hyperbolic Space, and meet each other there.
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Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.
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In fact, my main conclusion after spending ten years of my life working on the TEX project is that software is hard. It's harder than anything else I've ever had to do.
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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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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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