Donald Knuth Quotes
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People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.
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Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random
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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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A mathematical formula should never be 'owned' by anybody! Mathematics belong to God.
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An algorithm must be seen to be believed.
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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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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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I've never been a good estimator of how long things are going to take.
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Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
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How can you own ... numbers? Numbers belong to the world.
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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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A list is only as strong as its weakest link.
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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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Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been sorted with the help of a computer.