Donald Knuth Quotes

The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent.

Donald Knuth

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• People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • People
  • Money
  • Globalization

• I worked on the workshop of 'Topdog/Underdog' before it went to Broadway. My minor in school was theater, so I'm based in that, and then I moved to Los Angeles.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • School
  • Los Angeles

• There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Leadership
  • Matter
  • Gender

• I really hate drama. It's draining; it's mentally draining. It's a waste of time.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Time
  • Hate
  • Drama

• My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • School
  • May
  • Father

• I've done a lot of plays before where I had to do a New York accent, but never a Philly one before. They do the rhotic 'r' - where you say the 'r' - where most New Yorkers don't.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Done
  • Never
  • New York

• I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Work
  • You
  • Sleep

• You say something, things you would rather forget, and then they are out there. It makes me anxious and I don't know why people are interested in me anyway. If I had my way, I would rather exist in a little hole and not speak to anyone.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • People
  • Why
  • Me

• If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she'd get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the bank. I don't mean she wouldn't pay the bank, but the children always came first.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Children
  • She
  • Shoes

• The English king's power was curbed by Parliament, though that wasn't always a good thing, as politicians often behave no better than monarchs - there are just more of them.

  

  Karen Maitland
  • Good
  • Power
  • English

• Living in the U.K., there is no way to know whether anyone in India likes my music, but I was surprised to see people singing along while I performed in Pune.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • People
  • Music
  • Singing

• Investing in women and girls may once have been considered a radical notion or even a waste of resources, but in most places in the world today, women and girls are increasingly recognized as a critical link to greater prosperity, political stability, better health and public policy.

  

  Pat Mitchell
  • World
  • Women
  • May

• Read my letter to the old folks, and give my love to them, and tell my brothers to be always watching unto prayer, and when the good old ship of Zion comes along, to be ready to step aboard.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Good
  • Prayer
  • Give

• The pro-growth policies and spending restraint of Conservatives work.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Work
  • Growth
  • Spending

• I would hate to think I am not an amateur. An amateur is one who loves what he is doing. Very often, I'm afraid, the professional hates what he is doing. So, I'd rather be an amateur.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Hate
  • Professional

• I feel no bond with South Africa, which is curious, since South Africa is where I was born.

  

  Daniel Hope

• A man should look effortless and classic. It's such a turnoff if a man is too well groomed or trendy.

  

  Carlson Young

• If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.

  

  Anne Enright
  • Character

• Studies have shown touch to be the primary language of compassion, love and gratitude - emotions at the heart of trust and cooperation - even more than facial expressions and voice. Touch is the central medium in which the goodness of one individual can spread to another. Touch is the original contact high.

  

  Dacher Keltner
  • Heart
  • High
  • Trust

• Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.

  

  Cal Thomas
  • People
  • Words
  • Government

• Nobody knows what the cause is, though some pretend they do; it like some hidden assassin waiting to strike at you. Childless women get it, and men when they retire; it as if there had to be some outlet for their foiled creative fire.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Men
  • Women
  • Waiting

• The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it.

  

  Arthur Goldberg
  • Religious

• The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent.

  

  Donald Knuth