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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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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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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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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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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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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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I can’t go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu.
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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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An algorithm must be seen to be believed.
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I remember that mathematicians were telling me in the 1960s that they would recognize computer science as a mature discipline when it had 1,000 deep algorithms. I think we've probably reached 500.
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Beware of bugs in the above code I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
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The designer of a new kind of system must participate fully in the implementation.
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The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.
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I'm obsessively detail-oriented.
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Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random
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How can you own numbers? Numbers belong to the world.
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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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