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Donald Knuth

Email is a wonderful thing for those people whose role in life is to be on top of things, but not for me: my role is to be on the bottom of things.

– Donald Knuth

Donald Knuth

I am worried that algorithms are getting too prominent in the world. It started out that computer scientists were worried nobody was listening to us. Now I’m worried that too many people are listening.

– Donald Knuth

Donald Knuth

I’ll never know everything. My life would be a lot worse if there was nothing I knew the answers about – and if there was nothing I didn’t know the answers about.

– Donald Knuth

Donald Knuth

I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop – it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics; but I trust my family jewels only to Linux.

– Donald Knuth

Donald Knuth

I’m obsessively detail-oriented.

– Donald Knuth

Donald Knuth

God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue.

– Donald Knuth

Donald Knuth

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

Donald Knuth

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.

– Donald Knuth

Donald Knuth

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 Knuth

Donald Knuth

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

Donald Knuth

There’s ways to amuse yourself while doing things and thats how I look at efficency.

– Donald Knuth

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