Donald Knuth Quotes

I can’t be as confident about computer science as I can about biology. Biology easily has 500 years of exciting problems to work on. It’s at that level.

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• It's because of 'ER' that I've gotten the opportunity to get the work.

  

  Abraham Benrubi
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• There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.

  

  Barack Obama
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• I love doing impressions of politicians because the task is always to imagine the private lives of these people whose job it is to project an image of staunch, unflinching leadership and grace, and that's just not how human beings, in their heart of hearts, work.

  

  Kate McKinnon
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• I wrote 'Criminal' in 45 minutes when everyone else went to lunch because I had to have a hit. I can force myself to do the work, but only if someone is right up behind me.

  

  Fiona Apple
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• Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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• I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman.

  

  Dana Plato
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• I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.

  

  Felicity Jones
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• Don't get me wrong: there are some fantastic people who work at British Cycling who kept me together, who were there when I was struggling with it all. They were walking the same tightrope in many ways, because if you do speak up, your days are numbered.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
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• Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

  

  Imre Lakatos
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• We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
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• Frankly, one of the problems we have in the country is we're not forming enough families. And that is hurting our economic work, and it's hurting our economic projections, because the best place for a child is within a strong family unit.

  

  Sam Brownback
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• I love science fiction.

  

  Pam Grier
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• I don't believe that we should limit waterboarding - or, quite frankly, any other alternative torture technique - if it means saving Americans' lives.

  

  Aaron Schock
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• I work with all these amazing voice actors that do a kajillion voices.

  

  Katey Sagal
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• I spent a lot of time doing really unimportant work as an actor. It was important when I started writing that I obviously make it entertaining, or no one is going to go see it - but to really make you think, that is my goal.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
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• I did a whole lot of work before taking up my first movie. From TV commercials to Telugu films, I learnt a lot from them all.

  

  Yami Gautam
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• Smart authors, faced with storms, chose to create umbrellas. That's why a diverse group of authors banded together to create The Fiction Writer's Co-op, which will work to find innovative ways to promote each other's work and cheer each other on in a very competitive field.

  

  M. J. Rose
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• I don't work with Sia every day; it depends what we do, whether we do performances or music videos, so the schedule is weird, but when we're off, we always try to see each other in between. We just hang out; we went to brunch one time, but for the most part I go to her house, and we eat and watch TV.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
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• I am really looking forward to writing, recording and rocking with all the guys of Supremacy. We all have so much to give and it really means a lot to me to work together with those talented musicians. It will also bring back the good old days of Rock’n’Roll when my good old friend Michael Voss was on my side all across Europe back at the "Point Blank" days. A big Grazie to Serafino, Mario and all at Frontiers for their belief and for givin’ us one more reason to rock! Every little note of our songs will be a piece of our heart.

  

  Claus Lessmann Bonfire
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• There's one thing we all share: We eat to nurture ourselves, to feel stronger.

  

  Alek Wek

• Up close, North Korea is not Stalinist - it’s simply racist.

  

  Brian Reynolds Myers
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• Google, Amazon, Apple. Any number of cloud providers and computer service providers who can increasingly limit your access to your own information, control all your processing, take away your data if they want to, and observe everything you do; in a way, that does give them some leverage over your own life.

  

  John Perry Barlow Grateful Dead
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• A nuclear war does not defend a country and it does not defend a system. I've put it the same way many times; not even the most accomplished ideologue will be able to tell the difference between the ashes of capitalism and the ashes of communism.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith
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• I can’t be as confident about computer science as I can about biology. Biology easily has 500 years of exciting problems to work on. It’s at that level.

  

  Donald Knuth
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