We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
Whenever the C++ language designers had two competing ideas as to how they should solve some problem, they said, "OK, we'll do… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
... the designer of a new system must not only be the implementor and the first large-scale user; the designer should also… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random — 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
...methods are more important than facts. The educational value of a problem given to a student depends mostly on how often the… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art. — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
A mathematical formula should never be "owned" by anybody! Mathematics belong to God. — 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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