Quote by Donald Knuth
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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Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it. – 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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Microsoft, where quality is job 1.1. – Author Unknown

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The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do. – Ted Nelson

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What goes up must come down. Ask any system administrator. – Anon.

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