Quotes about Donald Knuth

There's ways to amuse yourself while doing things and thats how I look at efficency.

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The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not...

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The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs...

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The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I...

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The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many...

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Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything...

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People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is...

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Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that...

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In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose...

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

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I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to...

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God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the...

#Donald Knuth