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| Donald Knuth Quotes | No. | Quotation | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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. -- on the biggest challenge facin | Programming |
| 2 | ... the psychological profiling [of a programmer] is mostly the ability to shift levels of abstraction, from low level to high level. To see something in the small and to see something in the large | Programming |
| 3 | Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it | Programming |
| 4 | Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do | Programming |
| 5 | Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been sorted with the help of a computer. | Programming |
| 6 | Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming. | Programming |
| 7 | 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. | Programming |
| 8 | ... 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. | Programming |
| 9 | A list is only as strong as its weakest link. | Programming |
| 10 | An algorithm must be seen to be believed | Programming |
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