"Beware of bugs in the above code; I……" — Donald Knuth

"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."

— Donald Knuth

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57 Quotes by Donald Knuth

Donald Knuth has 57 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.
If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people…
Premature optimization is the root of all evil.
By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer…
Always remember, however, that there’s usually a simpler and better way to do something than the first way that pops…
Computer programming is an art, because it applies accumulated knowledge to the world, because it requires skill and ingenuity, and…
Science is knowledge which we understand so well that we can teach it to a computer; and if we don't…
The psychological profiling [of a programmer] is mostly the ability to shift levels of abstraction, from low level to high…
The important thing, once you have enough to eat and a nice house, is what you can do for others,…
The whole thing that makes a mathematician’s life worthwhile is that he gets the grudging admiration of three or four…
I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof.

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Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws. — Francis Bacon
Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you… — Francis Bacon
Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious. — Charles Baudelaire
Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child. — Henry Ward Beecher
Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. — Aesop
Beware of geeks bearing formulas. — Warren Buffett
Beware of the person of one book. — Thomas Aquinas
Whoever coined the term "Buyer Beware" was probably bleeding from the asshole. — George Carlin
Beware when you take on the Church of God. Others have tried and have bitten the dust. — Desmond Tutu
Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Beware of a wolf in sheep's clothing. — Aesop
There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part… — Victor Hugo

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