Quote by Donald Knuth
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 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

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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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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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Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it. – Alan Valentine

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I really like being pregnant. Not that there arent things I dont love, but when I think about what my body is doing – creating a child – it just blows my mind. Im in awe of the process and science. – Emily Deschanel

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I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it. – Jean M. Auel

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One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars. – Simon Newcomb

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If thats there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it. – Neil Armstrong

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The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge. – Ambrose Bierce

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I guess John Lennon had it right: give peace a chance. – Chris ODonnell

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An idea must not be condemned for being a little shy and incoherent; all new ideas are shy when introduced first among our old ones. We should have patience and see whether the incoherency is likely to wear off or to wear on, in which latter case the sooner we get rid of them the better. – Samuel Butler

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