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Donald Knuth
Donald Knuth
American Scientist
Born: Jan 10, 1938
Computer Everything Life People Science Will
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Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it. Donald Knuth
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Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do. Donald Knuth
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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy. Donald Knuth
You Unhappy Will Everything Always Optimize
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. Donald Knuth
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A list is only as strong as its weakest link. Donald Knuth
Strong Weakest Weakest Link Only Link List
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. Donald Knuth
Correct Tried Above Only Beware Bugs Proved Code
An algorithm must be seen to be believed. Donald Knuth
Seen Algorithm Must Believed
I'll never know everything. My life would be a lot worse if there was nothing I knew the answers about - and if there was nothing I didn't know the answers about. Donald Knuth
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In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field. Donald Knuth
Whatever Field Would Thousands See Fact Computer Advances Like Loose Scientists In Fact Want Really
I am worried that algorithms are getting too prominent in the world. It started out that computer scientists were worried nobody was listening to us. Now I'm worried that too many people are listening. Donald Knuth
People World Listening Too Many People Too Worried Prominent Out Computer Nobody Am Scientists Were Getting Us Many Now Started
The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language. Donald Knuth
Good Language Will Important Looking Suitable Programming Programming Language Invented Name Most Most Important Thing Without Am Important Thing Very The Most Important Succeed Now Thing Recently
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. Donald Knuth
Better Thought Programs Would Some Examples Could Knew Talent Got Lot Than Heck Might Show
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. Donald Knuth
People Will Programs Otherwise Some Pretty More Casually Write Computers Idea Weird Like Underlying Least Than Interested Should Who Hardware
I'm obsessively detail-oriented. Donald Knuth
Email is a wonderful thing for those people whose role in life is to be on top of things, but not for me: my role is to be on the bottom of things. Donald Knuth
Life Me People Wonderful Top Email Those Bottom Role Wonderful Thing Whose Thing Things
To me, it looks more or less like the hardware designers have run out of ideas and that they're trying to pass the blame for the future demise of Moore's Law to the software writers by giving us machines that work faster only on a few key benchmarks! Donald Knuth
Work Future Me Blame Key Law Giving Few Faster Software Machines Out Run Moore More Only More Or Less Writers Like Demise Ideas Looks Pass Trying Us Less Designers Hardware

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