Donald Knuth Quotes
My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the text into my machine.
Quotes to Explore
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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I will keep working hard!
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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I always get scared. I can't read scripts. I'm scared, scary movies and stuff.
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No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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I grew up in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and reading was a big part of my life - I'd get through several books a week.
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No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.
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I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.
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Inspire your children. I promise, your kids will think you're cool if you do this. They may not tell you that now, but they'll thank you later in life.
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I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing.
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The Federal Reserve is incapable of accomplishing its stated objectives.
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If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me.
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I've got four kids - I unblock a toilet every day.
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A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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The thing about the wacky fans is that they're really sweet.
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I'm comfortable singing jazz. The only thing I was concerned about is that everybody, even in jazz, has their own style. To me, the queen of doodling was Ella Fitzgerald, and scatting is something I never thought I could do.
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You have people who are so passionate and touched by my work, which is so humbling. But other times, it's a little overwhelming. If I'm just trying to go to the bodega and get some coconut water, I have to put on a hat and some glasses - those kind of things.
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For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.
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My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the text into my machine.
