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Programs Quotes by Donald Knuth
- 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…
- ...One of the most important lessons, perhaps, is the fact that SOFTWARE IS HARD. From now on I shall have significantly greater respect for every…
- The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it…
- Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute.
- I think people who write programs do have at least a glimmer of extra insight into the nature of God... because creating a program often…
- Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually…
- 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…
- The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that.…
- The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is…
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- Told reporters Wednesday he can support a pathway to citizenship for some of the 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. and… — Darrell Issa
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