"The designer of a new kind of system……" — Donald Knuth

"The designer of a new kind of system must participate fully in the implementation."

— 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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More Design Quotes

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I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating… — Giorgio Armani
Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. — Lance Armstrong
Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and… — Lance Armstrong
The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions… — Mary Astell
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. — Marcus Aurelius
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be… — Marcus Aurelius
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. — Francis Bacon
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. — Francis Bacon
If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. — Red Adair
You don't take a photograph, you make it. — Ansel Adams
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete… — Douglas Adams
Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next. — Tyra Banks

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