Donald Knuth Quotes
I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.Donald Knuth
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I think the best thing I can hope to achieve is to educate, or make aware, as many people as possible on how the little things they do every day really do affect our environment, and how easy it is to fix some of those things.
Aaron Peirsol -
Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
Madame de Stael -
I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
Damien Chazelle -
I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
Owen Wilson -
I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
Fiona Apple -
In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
H. G. Wells
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When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
J. D. Souther -
People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
Patricia Kaas -
Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.
Dan Kaminsky -
I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.
Taylor Dayne -
Having grown up as a young Army officer in the Vietnam era, I had an instinctual sort of notion that you have to look very carefully and weigh very carefully what anyone says.
Jack Reed
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When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight.
Salma Hayek -
This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.
Hannah Gadsby -
People think that young people don't care about things, but I think they do care; they just aren't super interested in conforming to what older people think are the right way to do things.
Olivia Wilde -
Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.
Ram Dass -
I normally don't listen to my instincts because I'm so full of doubt.
Victoria Pendleton -
Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?
Taslima Nasrin
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Streetlife serenaders Have no obligations Hold no grand illusions Need no stimulation.
Billy Joel -
Things will come to you when the time is right and I say just go for it. If you love what you want to do, just keep on going.
Bailee Madison -
The great thing about using the past is that it gives you the most colossal freedom to invent. The research is necessary, of course, but no one writes a novel to dramatically illustrate what everybody already knows.
Peter Carey -
The Enlightened One said: I am not at variance with the unenlightened mind, the unenlightened mind is at variance with me. What it accepts, I accept. What it rejects, I reject.
Asvaghosa -
I would like to help my people in any way I can. It's difficult times in Pakistan and we all have to help.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari -
I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.
Donald Knuth