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Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour.
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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Milwaukee City
Wisconsin
Donald E. Knuth
Don Knuth
Donald Ervin Knuth
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Computer programming is an art, because it applies accumulated knowledge to the world, because it requires skill and ingenuity, and especially because it produces objects of beauty. A programmer who subconsciously views himself as an artist will enjoy what he does and will do it better.
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An algorithm must be seen to be believed.
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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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I've never been a good estimator of how long things are going to take.
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Beware of bugs in the above code I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
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There's ways to amuse yourself while doing things and thats how I look at efficency.
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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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By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method it is much closer to reality.
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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 enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.
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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 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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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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I can’t go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu.
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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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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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I have a hunch that the unknown sequences of DNA will decode into copyright notices and patent protections.
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How can you own numbers? Numbers belong to the world.
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