"The sun comes up just about as often……" — Donald Knuth

"The sun comes up just about as often as it goes down, in the long run, but this doesn't make its motion random."

— 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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Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down. — J. J. Abrams
Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
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Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No… — Lance Armstrong
My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear… — Desi Arnaz
This is the sheriff you're talking about, with a gun and badge that enforces the law. Nothing is going to… — Joe Arpaio
The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the… — Mary Astell
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I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for… — Rowan Atkinson
I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones,… — Margaret Atwood
The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as… — Chinua Achebe

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