Knuth Quotes
Collection of top 41 famous quotes about Knuth
Knuth Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Knuth quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.
— Donald Knuth
I'm obsessively detail-oriented.
— Donald Knuth
The best theory is inspired by practice.
— Donald Knuth
If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
— Donald Knuth
Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.
— Donald Knuth
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 Knuth
The best practice is inspired by theory.
— Donald Knuth
Instead of concentrating just on finding good answers to questions, it's more important to learn how to find good questions!
— Donald E. Knuth
I can't go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu.
— Donald Knuth
Always remember, however, that there's usually a simpler and better way to do something than the first way that pops into your head.
— Donald Knuth
By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality.
— Donald Knuth
I have a hunch that the unknown sequences of DNA will decode into copyright notices and patent protections.
— Donald Knuth
It would be nice if we could design a virtual reality in Hyperbolic Space, and meet each other there.
— Donald Knuth
Meta-design is much more difficult than design; it's easier to draw something than to explain how to draw it.
— Donald Knuth
The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located.
— Donald Knuth
It is much more rewarding to do more with less.
— Donald Knuth
Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer; art is everything else.
— Donald Ervin Knuth
Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been prepared with the help of a computer.
— Donald Knuth
An algorithm must be seen to be believed.
— Donald Ervin 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
Nearly every example of faulty reasoning that has been published is accompanied by the phrase "of course" or its equivalent.
— Donald Ervin Knuth
Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.
— Donald Knuth
[The Euclidean algorithm is] the granddaddy of all algorithms, because it is the oldest nontrivial algorithm that has survived to the present day.
— Donald Knuth
Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute.
— Donald Ervin Knuth
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
— Donald Ervin Knuth
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 Knuth
The language in which we express our ideas has a strong influence on our thought processes.
— Donald Knuth
God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue.
— Donald Knuth
A mathematical formula should never be "owned" by anybody! Mathematics belong to God.
— Donald Knuth
The whole thing that makes a mathematician's life worthwhile is that he gets the grudging admiration of three or four colleagues.
— Donald Knuth
Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour.
— Donald Knuth