Donald Knuth Quotes
People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.
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Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.
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I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
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For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
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I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.
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I'm not a role model. I say parents should parent and monitor their kids.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.
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I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
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I haven't chosen any party yet because people choose parties when they get older. When it's time, I'll look, and if I can't find one to join, I'll make another party.
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When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.
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When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.
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Plums are a good substitute for gooseberries.
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There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach.
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We never have business meals at El Bulli. If it's about business, you're probably not paying much attention to the food.
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The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
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As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
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In the area of macroeconomic policies, I think we'll see more centralization, like in the budgetary sphere.
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A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.
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I think that American women are further along than any other women in the world. But you can't have peace in a world in which some women or some men or some nations are at different stages of development. There is so much work to be done.
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People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.
