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Top Donald Knuth Quotes

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Favorite Donald Knuth Quotes

1. "There's ways to amuse yourself while doing things and thats how I look at efficency." ~ Donald Knuth
2. "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." ~ Donald Knuth
3. "A list is only as strong as its weakest link." ~ Donald Knuth
4. "Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do." ~ Donald Knuth
5. "If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy." ~ Donald Knuth
6. "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." ~ Donald Knuth
7. "My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the text into my machine." ~ Donald Knuth
8. "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." ~ Donald Knuth
9. "I've never been a good estimator of how long things are going to take." ~ Donald Knuth
10. "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." ~ Donald Knuth
11. "God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue." ~ Donald Knuth
12. "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." ~ Donald Knuth
13. "Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it." ~ Donald Knuth

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The amount that she loved us was beyond her reach. It could not be quantified or contained. It was the ten thousand named things in the Tao Te Ching's universe and then ten thousand more. Her love was full-throated and all-encompassing and unadorned. Every day she blew through her entire reserve."
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