Donald Knuth Quotes
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No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.
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I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.
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We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.
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We were then satisfied that, with proper lubrication and better adjustments, a little more power could be expected. The completion of the motor according to drawing was, therefore, proceeded with at once.
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Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
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My husband and I were married in May 2007 on a sprawling rent-a-ranch in the Texas Hill Country. On the drive from Houston, we'd stopped off for our marriage license in the former produce aisle of a Winn Dixie-turned-courthouse in San Marcos and from there drove off the grid.
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Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
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I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go to a movie, and that they're not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again. I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.
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I never have been a coder, outside of when I was twelve or something, like on the Atari 1200 XP or whatever I had.
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I like to stay home with my family.
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Marketers are out there trying to figure out how to get your money out of your child.
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If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about.
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I've created my own career in my life, and I've had a lot of fun doing it. I think that's good.
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Today, in every wave of every ocean, I see our children playing and dancing. Today, in every plant, tree, and mountain, I see our children growing in freedom.
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I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.
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I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.
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My parents are from the Midwest. They're from Evanston, Illinois. They moved out to Los Angeles right before I was born.
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Bah, the latest news, the latest news is not the last.
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He who gets nearer the sun is leader, the aristocrat of aristocrats, or he who, like Dostoevsky, gets nearest the moon of our non-being.
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A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
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The E.U. needs a strategy that marries a shared vision to common action.
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The critical reaction to 'Bloom' has been similar to 'Brick.' There are people on board with it and people who are not.
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It is a thought as sweet as heaven to know that in the minds of each of us the may by the fence still blooms in an eternal springtime; that the snowdrop has in our hearts a triple birth, and blooms in three separate minds, faultlessly... So that if all the flowers and grasses and hollows and hills of the old house were razed and mutilated - as they are now, I suppose - we keep them intact in three minds, each depending on the other to supply it with the delicate minutiae of remembrance.
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An algorithm must be seen to be believed.
