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I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There

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

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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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Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science. – Edward Sapir

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Science is based on the possibility of objectivity, on the possibility of different people checking out for themselves the observations made by others. Without that possibility, there is no empirical principle capable of deciding between different arguments and theories. – Jose Padilha

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Ethics and Science need to shake hands. – Richard Clarke Cabot

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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. – Oscar Wilde

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