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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
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The designer of a new kind of system must participate fully in the implementation.
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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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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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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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Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour.
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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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An algorithm must be seen to be believed.
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I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof.
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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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Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.
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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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There's ways to amuse yourself while doing things and thats how I look at efficency.
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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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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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I can’t go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu.
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The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent.
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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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It would be nice if we could design a virtual reality in Hyperbolic Space, and meet each other there.
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A list is only as strong as its weakest link.
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