"I'm obsessively detail-oriented." — Donald Knuth
"I'm obsessively detail-oriented."
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Donald Knuth
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57 Quotes by Donald Knuth
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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 Detail Quotes
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To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.
— Giorgio Armani
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I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize…
— Andrea Arnold
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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
— Honore de Balzac
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I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in…
— Drew Barrymore
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What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.
— Manolo Blahnik
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I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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There are divisions between a culinary chef and a dessert chef, also called a pastry chef. There are specializations within…
— Ron Ben-Israel
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I like movies where you feel like you're going into another world, and no matter how many times you watch…
— Nicolas Cage
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Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant…
— Dale Carnegie
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In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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I think I've owned all the models of iPods so far. And these days between my iPod, iPhone and my…
— Ian Anderson
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to…
— L. Sprague de Camp
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