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The best theory is inspired by practice.
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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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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The designer of a new kind of system must participate fully in the implementation.
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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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Beware of bugs in the above code I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
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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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The best practice is inspired by theory.
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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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Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been prepared with the help of a computer.
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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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How can you own numbers? Numbers belong to the world.
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I've never been a good estimator of how long things are going to take.
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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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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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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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It is much more rewarding to do more with less.
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A mathematical formula should never be owned by anybody! Mathematics belong to God.
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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 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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The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.
Donald Knuth
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.
Donald Knuth
