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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 enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.
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There's ways to amuse yourself while doing things and thats how I look at efficency.
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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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A mathematical formula should never be owned by anybody! Mathematics belong to God.
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Beware of bugs in the above code I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
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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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Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
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