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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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Historian Of Mathematics
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Milwaukee City
Wisconsin
Donald E. Knuth
Don Knuth
Donald Ervin Knuth
D.E.K.
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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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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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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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Science is knowledge which we understand so well that we can teach it to a computer and if we don't fully understand something, it is an art to deal with it.
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A mathematical formula should never be owned by anybody! Mathematics belong to God.
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The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.
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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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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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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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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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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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Meta-design is much more difficult than design it's easier to draw something than to explain how to draw it.
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An algorithm must be seen to be believed.
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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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I think people who write programs do have at least a glimmer of extra insight into the nature of God... because creating a program often means that you have to create a small universe
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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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How can you own numbers? Numbers belong to the world.
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The best theory is inspired by practice.
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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.
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