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Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do. – 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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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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My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics. – Arthur Keith

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Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on. – David Brin

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Weve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. – Carl Sagan

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However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson nothing is impossible. – Lewis Mumford

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Hunger makes a thief of any man. – Pearl S. Buck, quoted in You Said a Mouthful, edited by Ronald D. Fuchs

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My mom was a professional fitness competitor, so I go into the gym with her. I train with my dad and mother. Its embarrassing, because shes really strong. – Booboo Stewart

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You know, its sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections dont make money. – Chad Harbach

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Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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