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The most important thing in t...

The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language.

Donald Ervin Knuth 77 quotes

The sun comes up just about a...

The sun comes up just about as often as it goes down, in the long run, but this doesn't make its motion random.

Donald Ervin Knuth 77 quotes

I can't be as confident about...

I can't be as confident about computer science as I can about biology. Biology easily has 500 years of exciting problems to work on. It's at that level.

Donald Ervin Knuth 77 quotes

The enjoyment of one's tools ...

The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.

Donald Ervin Knuth 77 quotes

By understanding a machine-or...

By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality.

Donald Ervin Knuth 77 quotes

The book Dynamic Programming ...

The book Dynamic Programming by Richard Bellman is an important, pioneering work in which a group of problems is collected together at the end of some chapters under the heading "Exercises and Research Problems," with extremely trivial questions appearing in the midst of deep, unsolved problems. It is rumored that someone once asked Dr. Bellman how to tell the exercises apart from the research problems, and he replied: "If you can solve it, it is an exercise; otherwise it's a research problem."

Donald Ervin Knuth 77 quotes

The best practice is inspired...

The best practice is inspired by theory.

Donald Ervin Knuth 77 quotes

In fact, my main conclusion a...

In fact, my main conclusion after spending ten years of my life working on the TEX project is that software is hard. It's harder than anything else I've ever had to do.

Donald Ervin Knuth 77 quotes

[The Euclidean algorithm is] ...

[The Euclidean algorithm is] the granddaddy of all algorithms, because it is the oldest nontrivial algorithm that has survived to the present day.

Donald Ervin Knuth 77 quotes

Random numbers should not be ...

Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random

Donald Ervin Knuth 77 quotes

My first program taught me a ...

My first program taught me a lot about the errors that I was going to be making in the future, and also about how to find errors. That's sort of the story of my life, making errors and trying to recover from them. I try to get things correct. I probably obsess about not making too many mistakes.

Donald Ervin Knuth 77 quotes

People think that computer sc...

People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on each other, like a wall of mini stones.

Donald Ervin Knuth 77 quotes

We should continually be stri...

We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.

Donald Ervin Knuth 77 quotes

For his major contributions t...

For his major contributions to the analysis of algorithms and the design of programming languages, and in particular for his contributions to the "art of computer programming" through his well-known books in a continuous series by this title.

Donald Ervin Knuth 77 quotes

It would be nice if we could ...

It would be nice if we could design a virtual reality in Hyperbolic Space, and meet each other there.

Donald Ervin Knuth 77 quotes

My general working style is t...

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 Ervin Knuth 77 quotes

The hardest thing is to go to...

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.

Donald Ervin Knuth 77 quotes

Let us change our traditional...

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.

Donald Ervin Knuth 77 quotes

A list is only as strong as i...

A list is only as strong as its weakest link.

Donald Ervin Knuth 77 quotes

The manuals we got from IBM w...

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 Ervin Knuth 77 quotes

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