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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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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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A mathematical formula should never be owned by anybody! Mathematics belong to God.
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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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How can you own numbers? Numbers belong to the world.
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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 have a hunch that the unknown sequences of DNA will decode into copyright notices and patent protections.
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I've never been a good estimator of how long things are going to take.
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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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An algorithm must be seen to be believed.
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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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