Quote by Donald Knuth
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

Other quotes by Donald Knuth

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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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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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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Life begins at forty and ends at sixty-five — degrees centigrade. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Science

Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved. – Jacob Bronowski

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Science

I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it. – Jean M. Auel

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Science

Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena. – Stanislav Grof

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Science

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things. – Peace Pilgrim

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Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Men

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it. – Sir Winston Churchill

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Presidency

I knew Id just done one of the most amazing things that I will ever get a chance to do. Just to be part of a musical thats not your background and to pull it off and to think that weve done something thats really special. – Gerard Butler

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amazing