Donald Knuth Quotes
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.
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When I talk to young girls about clothes, I tell them to show a lot of brains.
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I am especially fascinated with mermaids, and they are always coming out in pirate stories.
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Brad Pitt is a dude who just wants to make good movies. He's not afraid to surround himself with the greatest actors, which I always appreciate because I've also seen actors who only want to surround themselves with weak actors because it makes them look better. That ends up making a poorer movie.
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I'm just a person who forgives and forgets. I have a hard time holding grudges.
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Many Democrats have a pre-9/11 worldview.
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I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture.
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I really loved 'Witches of Eastwick', the movie with Michelle Pfeiffer and Jack Nicholson and Cher.
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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
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When you have somebody like a Donald Trump - he made no bones about trying to disprove Barack Obama's Americanism in trying to make him out to be some foreigner that was born in Kenya. I thought that to be very racist.
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Acting is equal parts talent and perseverance.
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I'm sure in the history of Harvard, and the history of most schools, there's been some pretty crazy parties that I'm not even sure you could even capture on film how silly and ridiculous they were.
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I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
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I need about three seats lengthwise to sleep on a plane. It's not easy for me to curl up.
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If you're not doing something different, you're not doing anything.
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I spend my money like I don't have anything.
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I read a lot on the subject and had many conversations, and I have come to the conclusion that the Catholic Church is a force for evil.
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The 'hood don't really wanna hear it, but you need brown rice, you need wheat bread, stuff like that.
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Tradition has made women cowardly.
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The word chrysalis alone is an unmistakable indication that here two dreams are joined together, dreams that be-speak both the repose and flight of being, evening's crystallization and wings that open to the light.
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In order to be a good writer, you've got to be a bad boss. Self-discipline and stamina are the two major arms in a writer's arsenal.
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What our Lord said about cross-bearing and obedience is not in fine type. It is in bold print on the face of the contract.
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It's absolutely essential that we have the same safeguards that straight couples do. But I want more than a 50 percent chance of success. I don't want to emulate that.
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The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality.
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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.
