Donald Knuth Quotes
The real problem is that programmers have spent far too much time worrying about efficiency in the wrong places and at the wrong times; premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming.Donald Knuth
Quotes to Explore
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Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
P. G. Wodehouse -
But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.
Laura Ingalls Wilder -
Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
Gary Wolf -
I'm an artist at heart.
Lance Reddick -
I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.
Jackie Kennedy
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Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright color ever, unless the story says 'there goes the girl in a red dress.'
Edith Head -
My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
Manuel Puig -
Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.
Samora Machel -
I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
Larry Hogan -
I have had that same experience where there are several people who have come up in my life at the right time and have made critical contributions to how I see the world and how I see myself.
Mahershala Ali -
I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
Dan Webster
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I think that it's the love of God that brings man into repentance. Once you embrace that love and have that fellowship with God, all those things that you shouldn't be doing will go away.
Tasha Smith -
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
Abraham Lincoln -
Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
Ted Cruz -
Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
Maeve Binchy -
I'm not a god - I do bad things.
Jackie Chan -
A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
Olga Kurylenko
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Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.
Donald Berwick -
I love my family. We have a very rich, complicated relationship.
Maya Hawke -
I don't think ever before in the whole of human history has so much art been made, bought, and sold. It's a massive international business. So, I think there's a lot of reasons why the art world as opened up and I think on the whole, it's far better for it.
Will Gompertz -
Well, air-conditioning is not a good thing.
James Dyson -
I cannot say something different to one person and then another.
Agnes Varda -
The real problem is that programmers have spent far too much time worrying about efficiency in the wrong places and at the wrong times; premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming.
Donald Knuth