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Donald Knuth has 57 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.
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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
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People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things…
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Premature optimization is the root of all evil.
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By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality.
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Always remember, however, that there’s usually a simpler and better way to do something than the first way that pops into your…
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Computer programming is an art, because it applies accumulated knowledge to the world, because it requires skill and ingenuity, and especially because…
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Science is knowledge which we understand so well that we can teach it to a computer; and if we don't fully understand…
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The psychological profiling [of a programmer] is mostly the ability to shift levels of abstraction, from low level to high level. To…
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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…
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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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I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof.
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Good name in man and woman is the immediate jewel of their souls.
— William Shakespeare
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A good name is better than bags of gold.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.
— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
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I hope they're still making women like my momma. She always told me to do the right thing. She always told me…
— Joe Louis
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Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises, don’t worry about making a bunch of money or being successful.…
— Patti Smith
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Not only is a good name catchy and memorable, it should help people understand what your business does. If your name reflects…
— Lori Greiner
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Drummed into me, above all, by my dad, by the whole family, was that without your good name, you would be nothing.
— Arthur Ashe
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And wow! Hey! What's this thing coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs…
— Douglas Adams
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I don’t think ‘science fiction’ is a very good name for it, but it’s the name that we’ve got. It is different…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.
— Solomon
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Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once…
— Socrates
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A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.
— William Wycherley
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