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"We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art."

— 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.
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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What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music,… — Billie Joe Armstrong
Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself. — Jane Addams
Each generation, as it seeks to advance the common good, must ask anew: 'What are the requirements that governments may… — Pope Benedict XVI
Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes. — Buffalo Bill
The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance. — Aeschylus
Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests. — John Bolton
There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are… — John Bolton
The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom. — George W. Bush
Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a… — George W. Bush
I have never wavered from my intention to advance the cause of diversity in new and more effective ways. — Jeb Bush
We believe in a flexible union of free member states who share treaties and institutions and pursue together the ideal… — David Cameron
Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating.… — Albert Camus

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