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

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

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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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Ive tried to be a straight scientist doing the science and reporting it as best I can. – James Hansen

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I did one sci-fi movie. I did Gattaca. I liked Gattaca because that was always the kind of science fiction I really dug, the non-action oriented sci-fi. – Ethan Hawke

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

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He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly, how much more then in spiritual? – Robert Barclay

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