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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

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

Random numbers should not be ...

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

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

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 best practice is inspired...

The best practice is inspired by theory.

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

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 enjoyment of one's tools ...

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

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 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

Programs are meant to be read...

Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute.

Donald Ervin Knuth 77 quotes

Whenever the C++ language des...

Whenever the C++ language designers had two competing ideas as to how they should solve some problem, they said, "OK, we'll do them both". So the language is too baroque for my taste.

Donald Ervin Knuth 77 quotes

I remember that mathematician...

I remember that mathematicians were telling me in the 1960s that they would recognize computer science as a mature discipline when it had 1,000 deep algorithms. I think we've probably reached 500.

Donald Ervin Knuth 77 quotes

We should forget about small ...

We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.

Donald Ervin Knuth 77 quotes

Science is knowledge which we...

Science is knowledge which we understand so well that we can teach it to a computer; and if we don't fully understand something, it is an art to deal with it.

Donald Ervin Knuth 77 quotes

TeX has found at least one bu...

TeX has found at least one bug in every Pascal compiler it's been run on, I think, and at least two in every C compiler

Donald Ervin Knuth 77 quotes

... the designer of a new sys...

... the designer of a new system must not only be the implementor and the first large-scale user; the designer should also write the first user manual. ... If I had not participated fully in all these activities, literally hundreds of improvements would never have been made, because I would never have thought of them or perceived why they were important.

Donald Ervin Knuth 77 quotes

I can’t go to a restaurant an...

I can’t go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu.

Donald Ervin Knuth 77 quotes

Premature optimization is the...

Premature optimization is the root of all evil.

Donald Ervin Knuth 77 quotes

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