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

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More and more NFL players have been willing their bodies to science so that their brains can be studied even if they die of other causes. – Jeffrey Kluger

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Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it. – Denis Leary

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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment. – Galileo Galilei

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The only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down. – Alex Jason [Popularized by Adam Savage in MythBusters. Supposedly, Karl Kruszeln

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Few love to hear the sins they love to act. – William Shakespeare

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