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Machine Quotes by Donald Knuth
- By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality.
- 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…
- I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and…
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- I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine. — Aneurin Bevan