Quotes of Donald Knuth - somelinesforyou

“ Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it. ”

- Donald Knuth

“ I thought when I went to college I would be a music major. I played saxophone, but then the tuba player got into an accident and I became a tuba player. I arranged a piece for band that combined all kinds of themes off TV shows - - Dragnet, Howdy Doody Time, and Bryl Cream… ”

- Donald Knuth

“ My feeling is that when we prepare a program, the experience can be just like composing poetry or music; as Andrei Ershov has said, programming can give us both intellectual and emotional satisfaction, because it is a real achievement to master complexity and to establish a system of consistent rules. ”

- Donald Knuth

“ The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located. ”

- Donald Knuth

“ The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located. ”

- Donald Knuth

“ I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science. ”

- Donald Knuth

“ An algorithm must be seen to be believed. ”

- Donald Knuth

“ Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do. ”

- Donald Knuth

“ My feeling is that when we prepare a program, the experience can be just like composing poetry or music; as Andrei Ershov has said, programming can give us both intellectual and emotional satisfaction, because it is a real achievement to master complexity and to establish a system of consistent rules. ”

- Donald Knuth

“ I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science. ”

- Donald Knuth

“ My feeling is that when we prepare a program, the experience can be just like composing poetry or music; as Andrei Ershov has said, programming can give us both intellectual and emotional satisfaction, because it is a real achievement to master complexity and to establish a system of consistent rules. ”

- Donald Knuth

“ I thought when I went to college I would be a music major. I played saxophone, but then the tuba player got into an accident and I became a tuba player. I arranged a piece for band that combined all kinds of themes off TV shows - - Dragnet, Howdy Doody Time, and Bryl Cream… ”

- Donald Knuth

“ My feeling is that when we prepare a program, the experience can be just like composing poetry or music; as Andrei Ershov has said, programming can give us both intellectual and emotional satisfaction, because it is a real achievement to master complexity and to establish a system of consistent rules. ”

- Donald Knuth

“ I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science. ”

- Donald Knuth

“ I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science. ”

- Donald Knuth

“ I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science. ”

- Donald Knuth

“ I thought when I went to college I would be a music major. I played saxophone, but then the tuba player got into an accident and I became a tuba player. I arranged a piece for band that combined all kinds of themes off TV shows - - Dragnet, Howdy Doody Time, and Bryl Cream… ”

- Donald Knuth

“ Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. ”

- Donald Knuth

“ The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent. ”

- Donald Knuth

“ Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do. ”

- Donald Knuth

“ I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science. ”

- Donald Knuth

“ Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do. ”

- Donald Knuth

“ Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been sorted with the help of a computer. ”

- Donald Knuth

“ My feeling is that when we prepare a program, the experience can be just like composing poetry or music; as Andrei Ershov has said, programming can give us both intellectual and emotional satisfaction, because it is a real achievement to master complexity and to establish a system of consistent rules. ”

- Donald Knuth

“ An algorithm must be seen to be believed. ”

- Donald Knuth

“ Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. ”

- Donald Knuth

“ I thought when I went to college I would be a music major. I played saxophone, but then the tuba player got into an accident and I became a tuba player. I arranged a piece for band that combined all kinds of themes off TV shows - - Dragnet, Howdy Doody Time, and Bryl Cream… ”

- Donald Knuth

“ An algorithm must be seen to be believed. ”

- Donald Knuth

“ The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent. ”

- Donald Knuth

“ Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been sorted with the help of a computer. ”

- Donald Knuth
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