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 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 -
When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.
Jack Antonoff Fun.
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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 -
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
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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 -
Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?
Taslima Nasrin -
I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.
Aaron Paul -
We want the city back on its feet. We want to have jobs for the city.
Manuel Moroun
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When a lion doesn't get its prey, it remains hungry. When the prey saves himself, he has not won, but has saved his life.
Uday Kotak -
Even on vacation, Rihanna's easy breezy chic is not complete without a red lip.
Derek Blasberg -
When trying to innovate, most people stop after 10-15 possibilities, failing to recognize that their first ideas are usually the most obvious ones.
Adam Grant -
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
I think people are trying out ideas with the new technology and it's too early to say where it's going exactly. But again, whether it's digital or paper, it doesn't matter. It's words that somebody is reading and getting an experience out of that reading. That's all that really matters.
Paul Auster -
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