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I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no I

I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop – it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics but I trust my family jewels only to Linux. – Donald Knuth

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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

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Science
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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

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Computers
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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

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Attitude
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We grow in time to trust the future for our answers. – Ruth Benedict

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I used to have trust with reporters. Give them scoops. Those were the old days. Its very strange, when you give a story and it doesnt come out the right way. – Joe Arpaio

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I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust. – Christopher Gadsden

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Trust

Trust yourself, then you will know how to live. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. – Dale Carnegie

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I did it to myself. It wasnt society… it wasnt a pusher, it wasnt being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing. – Ray Charles

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A fast is better than a bad meal. – Irish Proverb

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Who does not thank for little will not thank for much. – Estonian Proverb

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