Donald Knuth Quotes
The whole thing that makes a mathematician’s life worthwhile is that he gets the grudging admiration of three or four colleagues.
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I'm a choreographer and I love watching 'The Bachelorette.'
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
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After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
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The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic - nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection of form, with anatomy adapted to function, as in the felidae.
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of work.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
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For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.
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I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year.
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In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
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Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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I wanted to start working on something that had a lasting effect.
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I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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On every side, and at every hour of the day, we came up against the relentless limitations of pioneer life.
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The whole thing that makes a mathematician’s life worthwhile is that he gets the grudging admiration of three or four colleagues.
