Donald Knuth Quotes
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Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random
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The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located.
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I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics; but I trust my family jewels only to Linux.
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The important thing, once you have enough to eat and a nice house, is what you can do for others, what you can contribute to the enterprise as a whole.
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Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
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I've never been a good estimator of how long things are going to take.
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A mathematical formula should never be 'owned' by anybody! Mathematics belong to God.
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In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field.
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Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.
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Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration.
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How can you own ... numbers? Numbers belong to the world.
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The whole thing that makes a mathematician’s life worthwhile is that he gets the grudging admiration of three or four colleagues.
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A list is only as strong as its weakest link.
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In this sense, we should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.