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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Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we 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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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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Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now. – James Lovelock

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Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique. – Jared Diamond

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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. – Carl Sagan

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