Quote by Donald Knuth
Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something

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

Other quotes by Donald Knuth

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

Category:
Attitude
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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

Category:
Trust
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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

Category:
Computers
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Other Quotes from
Beauty
category

Beauty is only skin deep. – Thomas Overbury

Category:
Beauty

What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects. – Walter Pater

Category:
Beauty

Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux thats the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I dont have to run your OS, and you dont have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway! – Jamie Zawinski

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Beauty

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. – John Donne

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Beauty

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We need a new law that owners of SUVs are automatically in the military reserve. Then they can go get their own goddamn oil. – Jello Biafra, quoted in The Guardian, 3 November 2007

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War

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. – Peter Drucker

Category:
work

Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be. – Khalil Gibran

Category:
Love

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame. – Mason Cooley

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alone