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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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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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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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Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it. – Donald Knuth

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A person that much interested in science is going to neglect his social life somewhat, but not completely, because that isnt healthy either. So one has to work it out according to ones own inclinations, how one wants to proportion these things. – Clyde Tombaugh

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