"Random numbers should not be generated with a……" — Donald Knuth
"Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random"
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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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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever;…
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Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that…
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To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history,…
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There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn…
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My chosen exercise is cycling. I just love it.
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To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and…
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Why have I been chosen to deliver the message of female intelligence and its divinity to a deaf world of…
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Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them,…
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Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast…
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
— John Berger
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
— John Berger
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