"People who are more than casually interested in……" — 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 they write will be pretty weird."
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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 Casually Quotes
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Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don't take it casually.
— Tori Amos
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A warrior should not say something fainthearted, even casually. He should set his mind to this beforehand. Even in trifling…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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Positive emotion can be about the past, the present, or the future. The positive emotions about the future include optimism,…
— Martin Seligman
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For chemistry is no science form'd à priori; 'tis no production of the human mind, framed by reasoning and deduction:…
— Herman Boerhaave
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We read off the many signals that our companions' clothes transmit to us in every social encounter. In this way,…
— Desmond Morris
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Education tends to be diagrammatic and categorical, opening up no sluices in the human imagination on the wonder of the…
— Norman Cousins
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Time travel is a terrifying weapon, far more powerful than anything ever before conceived,' he said grimly.'Mankind just isn't ready…
— Alex Scarrow
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I've never dated (casually). Ever. It's kind of weird. I did have a boyfriend in junior high who was a…
— Claire Danes
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Jesus' simple poetic words are delivered casually and gently. Jesus prefers to explain a difficult concept over time, never talking…
— Roma Downey
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It's casual Friday, which means that at the White House, they're casually going through everybody's phone calls and records.
— Jay Leno
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Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them…
— Carl Sagan
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Even my parents are so cute, and they deal with every movie of mine excellently. They check with me ever…
— Natasha Henstridge
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