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Donald Knuth Quotes
«If you find that you're spending almost all your time on theory, start turning some attention to practical things; it will improve your theories. If you find that you're spending almost all your time on practice, start turning some attention to theoretical things; it will improve your practice.»
Author: Donald Knuth
«God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue.»
Author: Donald Knuth
«Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.»
Author: Donald Knuth
«Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.»
Author: Donald Knuth
«Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been sorted with the help of a computer.»
Author: Donald Knuth
«If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.»
Author: Donald Knuth
«An algorithm must be seen to be believed.»
Author: 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.»
Author: Donald Knuth
«A list is only as strong as its weakest link.»
Author: Donald Knuth
«The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located.»
Author: Donald Knuth