Donald Knuth Quotes
People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.
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With about a dozen assorted ongoing conflicts in the news every day, and with the stories becoming more horrific, the level of sadness becomes unbearable. And what becomes of our planet when that sadness becomes apathy? Because we feel helpless. And we turn our heads and turn the page.
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In this business, it's important to constantly do things that you don't know how to do. I love touring and making records, but I've learned how to do that, so sometimes you just have to dive in and try it.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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Unlike President Obama, I am not afraid to state, without a wink or a nod, that the government has no right to tell us who we can marry or not marry.
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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
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You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.
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Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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As a culture, working-class white Americans like myself had no heroes. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure in the modern army. I doubt my neighbours could even name a high-ranking military officer.
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The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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And now comes Pete Martell in Twin Peaks and he's just a nice guy.
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I like to think that Not For Sale is the Juniper Networks of the social section, a disruptive innovator.
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In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there's a mysterious patrol at night: when the streets are empty and everyone's asleep, they go erasing the past. It's like a bad Ray Bradbury story - 'The Memory Erasers'.
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Be aggressive... That's the type of pitcher I am. I go as hard as I can for as long as I can and see where the cards fall.
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I grew up in Alabama in a very small town and didn't have access to the finest of anything, really. But my mother was the kind of woman who just wanted us, me and my sisters, to be exposed to any and anything she could find.
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People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones.
