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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.

Donald Knuth

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Donald Knuth
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: January 10
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