Donald Knuth Quotes

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.

Donald Knuth

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• If you're not a parent, if you're an aunt or uncle or neighbor, books are an amazing gift.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Amazing
  • Gift
  • Uncle

• I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Control
  • Admit
  • Freak

• I don't worry about the things I can't change.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Change
  • Worry
  • Things

• Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Progress
  • Forward

• Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Art
  • Result
  • Sophisticated

• The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Mind
  • American
  • Landscape

• You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Great
  • Words
  • Voice

• I don't ever want to be sad about my life.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Life
  • Sad
  • My Life

• The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.

  

  Basil Bunting
  • Poetry
  • Moment
  • Try

• Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Why
  • Always
  • Environmental

• Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.

  

  Tara Strong
  • You
  • Play
  • Personality

• It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Good
  • Music
  • Money

• I read a very romantic book when I was young, when I was in college: Rilke's 'Letters to a Young Poet.' And I've always felt that if you are in any kind of an artistic, creative endeavor, and you feel there's something else you can do for a living and be happy, I think you should do something else.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Book
  • Happy
  • College

• The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Thinking
  • Moral
  • Values

• I'm actually a very lazy person. Most of the time, I'm happy to sit around and stare. Or watch bad TV soaps. It's quite rare for me to get inspired by anything, but it could be something small. A view of the Serpentine. A snatch of music. Or a little shred of conversation overheard on a bus, such as, 'You also will marry someone of my choice.'

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Time
  • Music
  • Bad

• Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Never
  • Better
  • Experiment

• With a male-centric show, the women are usually very two-dimensional.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Women
  • Show
  • Very

• Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain.

  

  E. T. A. Hoffmann
  • Experience
  • Man
  • Earth

• I guess working on 'Mad Men' turned me onto AMC and really got me watching the network, and so with that I got a good idea of the type of show they like to produce.

  

  Eric Ladin
  • Good
  • Men
  • Mad

• I know who I am inside and outside, and I know what I want to do. And I will always go with my dreams.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Dreams
  • Inside
  • Outside

• I have always been taught to be proud of being Latina, proud of being Mexican, and I was. I was probably more proud of being a "label" than of being a human being, that's the way most of us were taught.

  

  Erin Gruwell
  • Proud
  • Humans
  • Taught

• Property is, after all, a social convention, an agreement about someone's exclusive right to use a thing in specified ways. However, we seem to have forgotten this. We seem to think that property belongs to us in some essential way, that it is of us. We seem to think that our property is part of ourselves, and that by owning it we therefore make ourselves more, larger, greater.

  

  Charles Eisenstein
  • Thinking
  • Forgotten
  • Property

• Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.

  

  Donald Knuth