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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Decolonisation seems to have dented little the sense of superiority that since 1945 has made American leaders in particular consistently underestimate the intensity of nationalist feeling in Asia and Africa.
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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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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
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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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To be an artist is to doubt yourself and try harder.
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I played the Holiday Motel on the circle in 1970. I know the Jersey Shore.
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Applause is the most powerful thing... people talk about the sound of it, but what I hear is glee.
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There's a molecule inside of you that is connected to everything - every person, every energy, every thing. You look for it, and when you find it, then you allow it to magnify and grow and be the dominating chemistry inside of you.
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An algorithm must be seen to be believed.
