Donald Knuth Quotes
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People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.
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Our party, I can tell you, is very transparent; we believe in our credentials. Our credentials are our only credibility; we are not going to compromise on that; we are the commoners.
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
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So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.
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America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
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There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
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You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.
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Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.
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I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.
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The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
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There are more people at Obama's table offering ideas than there were five years ago, but when it came to facing up to the Republicans' threat to force a double-dip recession if they didn't get their millionaires' tax cut, they still amounted to nothing. And therein lies our fundamental problem.
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I wouldn't buy somebody's album on a dare if they called him a musician's musician. I don't write to be a writer's writer. I don't want to be like the little-magazine writer.
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I know the power of going to Mount St. Helens, and to see that level of devastation is quite something - the power of tsunamis, etc. But it's human cruelty, the base level of humanity, that scares me most.
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It was clear that if I didn't spend the rest of my life concentrating on string theory, I would simply be missing my life's calling.
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How can you own ... numbers? Numbers belong to the world.
