Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind. — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute. — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been prepared with the help of a computer. — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do. — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
I can't be as confident about computer science as I can about biology. Biology easily has 500 years of exciting problems to… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like.… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
When you write a program, think of it primarily as a work of literature. You're trying to write something that human beings… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can economically and scientifically rewarding, but… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
I try to learn certain areas of computer science exhaustively; then I try to digest that knowledge into a form that is… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do. — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
Science is knowledge which we understand so well that we can teach it to a computer; and if we don't fully understand… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
These machines have no common sense; they have not yet learned to "think," and they do exactly as they are told, no… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
Computer programming is an art, because it applies accumulated knowledge to the world, because it requires skill and ingenuity, and especially because… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
I remember that mathematicians were telling me in the 1960s that they would recognize computer science as a mature discipline when it… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
For his major contributions to the analysis of algorithms and the design of programming languages, and in particular for his contributions to… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
I'll never know everything. My life would be a lot worse if there was nothing I knew the answers about - and if there… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
“Nearly every example of faulty reasoning that has been published is accompanied by the phrase "of course" or its equivalent.” — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
[The Euclidean algorithm is] the granddaddy of all algorithms, because it is the oldest nontrivial algorithm that has survived to the present day. — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
When certain concepts of TeX are introduced informally, general rules will be stated; afterwards you will find that the rules aren't strictly true. In… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
In fact, my main conclusion after spending ten years of my life working on the TEX project is that software is hard. It's harder… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been prepared with the help of a computer. — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
My first program taught me a lot about the errors that I was going to be making in the future, and also about how… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
It would be nice if we could design a virtual reality in Hyperbolic Space, and meet each other there. — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
I have a hunch that the unknown sequences of DNA will decode into copyright notices and patent protections. — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind. — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
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