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    Donald Knuth

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    If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy. ↗


    — Donald Knuth

    #everything #optimize #unhappy #will #you

    My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the text into my machine. ↗


    — Donald Knuth

    #big #enter #everything #first #general

    People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird. ↗


    — Donald Knuth

    #computers #hardware #idea #interested #least

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


    — Donald Knuth

    #computer #else #enough #everything #explain

    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

    #could #examples #got #heck #i

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


    — Donald Knuth

    #beware #bugs #code #correct #i

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


    — Donald Knuth

    #centrally #important #important thing #kitchen #located






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    Instead of simply explaining the subject the book seeks to show the development of the mathematics. ——— (1997) The Art of Computer Programming 2: Seminumerical Algorithms (3rd ed. As an important member of the academic and scientific community Professor Donald Knuth is strongly opposed to the policy of granting software patents.

    Donald Ervin Knuth (pron. As an important member of the academic and scientific community Professor Donald Knuth is strongly opposed to the policy of granting software patents. Knuth has been called the "father" of the analysis of algorithms.

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