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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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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Computers
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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, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth. – Jules Verne

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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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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a mans upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric. – Kary Mullis

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