Donald Knuth Quotes
How can you own ... numbers? Numbers belong to the world.
Donald Knuth
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Hannah Kent
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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.
Mamata Banerjee
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
Patrick Soon-Shiong
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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.
Karin Slaughter
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
Natalie Dormer
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
D. H. Lawrence
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I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.
Oscar Wilde
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If someone ever decides to tell my story, it will make for a typical masala movie.
Adnan Sami
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I had children very young. You go through a period of immense guilt about being a working mother.
Adena Friedman
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I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. All these and other factors combined, if the circumstances are right, can teach and can lead to rebirth.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Let them understand above all that the artist works from necessity; that he, too, is a minute element of the world to whom one should ascribe no more importance than so many things in nature which charm us but which we do not explain to ourselves.
Pablo Picasso
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How can you own ... numbers? Numbers belong to the world.
Donald Knuth
