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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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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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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One of the reasons I've never done intensive psychotherapy or any of that stuff is that if there's anything in me that needs fixing, I want to know that I can rely on my own intuition to fix it.
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I love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail.
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I don't read magazines much, and I have an awful time with books.
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The prison is not the only institution that has posed complex challenges to the people who have lived with it and have become so inured to its presence that they could not conceive of society without it. Within the history of the United States the system of slavery immediately comes to mind.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger cut teacher's salaries and parks and libraries rather than raise taxes for the many California millionaires and billionaires.
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When someone mistreats you, the correct reaction is not to go out and do something to destroy somebody else's property.
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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.
