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genius donald knuth

Donald Knuth

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer; art is everything else.

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genius donald knuth

The language in which we express our ideas has a strong influence on our thought processes.

genius donald knuth

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

genius donald knuth

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.

genius donald knuth

Premature optimization is the root of all evil.

genius donald knuth

An algorithm must be seen to be believed.

genius donald knuth

The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.