Donald Knuth's Quote - People who are more than casually interested in computers should h

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People who are more than casually interested in computers should h

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