Logo
Quote by Donald Knuth
Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of prog

Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do. – Donald Knuth

Other quotes by Donald Knuth

People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird. – Donald Knuth

Category:
Computers
Author
Donald Knuth
Read Quote

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 eachother, like a wall of mini stones. – Donald Knuth

Category:
Science
Author
Donald Knuth
Read Quote

I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of ones contributions to computer science. – Donald Knuth

Category:
Science
Author
Donald Knuth
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Attitude
category

I just think that people take me a little more seriously as a brunette. I dont know if thats just because of a societal preconceived notion that all blondes are stupid, but its a different kind of attitude. – Kate Bosworth

Category:
Attitude

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Category:
Attitude

That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesnt do so now. – John Schlesinger

Category:
Attitude

Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws. – Stuart Chase

Category:
Attitude

Random Quotes

I always think I am one of the millions and millions of people that struggles with an addiction to food. I dont know how to relax, thats my problem. – Carnie Wilson

Category:
Food

Most of my songs are about Jesus. Most of my songs are about the idea that there is salvation, and that there is a Savior. But I wont mention his name in a song just to get a cheap play. – Peter Townsend

Category:
Salvation

Im always trying to find brain food and indulge in knowledge thats gonna be useful. – Big Boi

Category:
Food

I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value. – Rebecca West

Category:
Pleasure