"I can’t go to a restaurant and order……" — Donald Knuth
"I can’t go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu."
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57 Quotes by Donald Knuth
Donald Knuth has 57 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Computer programming is an art, because it applies accumulated knowledge to the world, because it requires skill and ingenuity, and…
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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…
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The psychological profiling [of a programmer] is mostly the ability to shift levels of abstraction, from low level to high…
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The important thing, once you have enough to eat and a nice house, is what you can do for others,…
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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…
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I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof.
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More Fonts Quotes
This quote is filed under Fonts Quotes,
one of 29 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Type design moves at the pace of the most conservative reader. The good type-designer therefore realizes that, for a new…
— Stanley Morison
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The fact that this chain of life existed [at volcanic vents on the seafloor] in the black cold of the…
— Robert Ballard
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The problem with these interviews is that there's no sarcastic font.
— Zach Galifianakis
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For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as…
— Saint Augustine
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For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however,…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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And each one is a partaker of this spiritual origin in regeneration; and to every one when he is re-born,…
— Pope Leo I
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Clearly, when we baptize, our eyes should gaze beyond the baptismal font to the holy temple. The great garner into…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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I’m a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both…
— Deborah Eisenberg
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Are some free fonts a gift to humanity rather than a blight on typographic civilization ?
— Ellen Lupton
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The other big factor in building trust quickly is site design quality. Mint.com has one of the best graphic designers…
— Aaron Patzer
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You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Love properly understood is God—the font of all creation and the ultimate goal of all desires; God properly understood is…
— Miroslav Volf
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