Donald Knuth Quotes
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The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.
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The most important thing that everybody can do, aside from building and keeping your network strong, is make good choices about your health.
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No one would feel embarrassed about seeking help for a child if they broke their arm - and we really should be equally ready to support a child coping with emotional difficulties.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
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I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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Talking about the all night concerts, I did some of the first all night concerts back in the 60's with this little harmonium, and I also had saxophone taped delays.
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Novels written by university professors and set in the groves of academe are far more rigidly predictable than anything but the most routine science fiction novel, but they have escaped the stigma of being labeled as genre.
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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
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Science fiction is a unique literature. Science fiction is the first literature that says, 'Tomorrow is going to be different than yesterday, it's going to be a lot different.'
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It's a fantastic responsibility and a wonderful moment.
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Trees sprout up just about everywhere in computer science...
