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Donald Knuth Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 10, 1938

Topics

People Computers Weird Will Write

If you're not willing to work, you're never going to be able to experience the American Dream.

Jim Jordan

Work Experience American Dream You

Absolutely, I grew up listening to soul music. People like Stevie, Aretha, Ray Charles, Michael and Prince. My parents' record collection was all I had when I was a little kid. If it wasn't that, it was something else in their collection.

Jesse McCartney

Music Soul Parents People Listening

The girls in 'Downton Abbey' do what they do so well, which is make it so natural despite the fact that you're living within these constraints and taking so much from the research aspect of it.

Anastasia Griffith

Research You Living Within Natural

In my day, MI6 - which I called the Circus in the books - stank of wartime nostalgia. People were defined by secret cachet: one man did something absolutely extraordinary in Norway; another was the darling of the French Resistance. We didn't even show passes to go in and out of the building.

John le Carre

Day Man People Building Nostalgia

I think theatre must be an event, an experience, not compete with cinema. When people are able to download stories on Netflix, you need to give them a good reason to jump into the car and drive two hours. It has to be something you can only see in the theatre, and it has to be worth it.

Robert Lepage

Good Car Experience People Theatre

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?

Angelina Jolie

I Am Feel You Sex Say Would

Letting a project sit and coming back to it is just as important as working on it all the time. You need to come back to it with fresh eyes.

Jeff Lemire

Eyes Time You Back Important Need

I think that people get to a certain point in their life and they think that nothing can change.

Jean Smart

Life Change People Think Nothing

Whatever their relative valuation of the single and married states, most societies in history made sharp distinctions between those who married and those who remained single: They were seen as mutually exclusive ways of life, with different legal rights and social obligations.

Stephanie Coontz

Life History Legal Single Whatever

I don't think it's a question of age as much as it's a question of what kind of shape you're in.

Strom Thurmond

Age Think You Kind Question Shape

I've worked on shows where the actors don't talk to each other, and if they want to talk to each other, they talk through the director. What kind of existence is this? If I have to spend 14 hours a day with somebody, we're in a relationship. We'd better talk it out.

Rocky Carroll

Relationship Day Better Want Kind

I love acting. It's way different from singing, but I like really put my ten thousand hours in to be really good. I want to be a premier actor. I want Oscars, I want recognition, and I want to move people just as much as I move people with my music, the same with my acting.

Luke James

Love Good Music People Singing Want