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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.

Donald Knuth

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Donald Knuth
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: January 10
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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.
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AI has by now succeeded in doing essentially everything that requires 'thinking' but has failed to do most of what people and animals do 'without thinking'-that, somehow, is much harder.
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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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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 best theory is inspired by practice.
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How can you own numbers? Numbers belong to the world.
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I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof.
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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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It would be nice if we could design a virtual reality in Hyperbolic Space, and meet each other there.
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The psychological profiling [of a programmer] is mostly the ability to shift levels of abstraction, from low level to high level. To see something in the small and to see something in the large.
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I've never been a good estimator of how long things are going to take.
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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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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 what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
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The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.
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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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A mathematical formula should never be owned by anybody! Mathematics belong to God.
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