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

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

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do. – Donald Knuth

Category:
Science
Author
Donald Knuth
Read Quote

Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it. – Donald Knuth

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

Bad attitudes will ruin your team. – Terry Bradshaw

Category:
Attitude

A river never beats its head against obstacles. It always goes around, and it always gets to the sea. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Attitude

I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it. – Thornton Wilder

Category:
Attitude

When life is viewed as good, a bad day is easily absorbed. – Attributed to Neil Maxwell

Category:
Attitude

Random Quotes

Giving “Magic” the basketball is like giving Hitler an army, Jesse James a gang, or Genghis Khan a horse. – Jim Murray, about Earvin Johnson

Category:
Basketball

You cant stop technology or science, and it is snowballing quicker than ever. Somethings got to come to a head. How? Who knows? But it will. – Billy Burke

Category:
Technology

We women are constantly at war with our bodies, it is hard to find amnesty for ourselves. – Margaret Cho

Category:
War

Events at home, at work, in the street – these are the bases for a story. – Naguib Mahfouz

Category:
Home