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The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.
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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Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
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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 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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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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Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour.
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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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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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The best practice is inspired by theory.
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I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof.
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It is much more rewarding to do more with less.
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I'm obsessively detail-oriented.
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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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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 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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A mathematical formula should never be owned by anybody! Mathematics belong to God.
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People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on each other, like a wall of mini stones.
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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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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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Beware of bugs in the above code I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
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