American - Scientist | January 10, 1938 -
God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue.
Donald Knuth
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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.
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Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
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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.
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There's ways to amuse yourself while doing things and thats how I look at efficency.
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The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish.
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In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field.
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The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located.
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I'm obsessively detail-oriented.
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