Quote by Donald Knuth
People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the

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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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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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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Science
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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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I saw science as being in harmony with humanity. – Joseph Rotblat

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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic. – Ursula K. Le Guin

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I would argue that the issue of God and the issue of science have the same roots. – Dinesh DSouza

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Theres a lot of interesting words, nomenclatures, in science. – Andrew Bird

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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future. – Hannah Arendt

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I’m not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it’s Shakespeare who says that it’s always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping. – P.G. Wodehouse

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Beauty is less important than quality. – Eugene Ormandy

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When Im not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When Im not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, Im reading books about history, computers, or embroidery. – Lynn Abbey

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