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

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In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons. – Marie Curie

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Math is sometimes called the science of patterns. – Ronald Graham

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No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong. – Albert Einstein

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Physics is geometric proof on steroids. – S.A. Sachs

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Everything can be improved. – C. W. Barron

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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth. – Herman Melville

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Opening a window to let out a fly and ending up with thirty midges, three wasps, two bees and an owl. – Rob Temple, @SoVeryBritish (Very British Problems: Making Life Awkward for Ourse

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Dead Last Finish is greater than Did Not Finish, which trumps Did Not Start. – Anonymous

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