Donald Knuth Quotes
By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality.
Donald Knuth
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I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.
Samuel Barnett
Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.
L. E. Modesitt
When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects in the output.
A. R. Rahman
Education should not be about building more schools and maintaining a system that dates back to the Industrial Revolution. We can achieve so much more, at unmatched scale with software and interactive learning.
Naveen Jain
Preach or proselytize for Christianity in much of the Islamic world, and you are a candidate for martyrdom. Practice freedom of speech in Xi Jinping's China, and you can wind up in a cell.
Pat Buchanan
SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.
Larry Niven
I hope to continue to inspire our nation's youth to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math so they, too, may reach for the stars.
Ellen Ochoa
I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.
J. G. Ballard
To make time for writing, one has to take time out from somewhere. Obviously, a fair amount of time that you spend with the family gets compromised. But my family has been very understanding and supportive.
Ravi Subramanian
It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
Barbara Kingsolver
I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.
Elia Kazan
By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality.
Donald Knuth