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Donald Knuth Quote: “My first program taught me a lot about the errors that I was going to be making in the future, and also about how to find errors. That’s sort of the story of my life, making errors and trying to recover from them. I try to get things correct. I probably obsess about not making too many mistakes.”

51. “My first program taught me a lot about the errors that I was going to be making in the future, and also about how to find errors. That’s sort of the story of my life, making errors and trying to recover from them. I try to get things correct. I probably obsess about not making too many mistakes.”

— Donald Knuth

Donald Knuth Quote: “I try to learn certain areas of computer science exhaustively; then I try to digest that knowledge into a form that is accessible to people who don’t have time for such study.”

52. “I try to learn certain areas of computer science exhaustively; then I try to digest that knowledge into a form that is accessible to people who don’t have time for such study.”

— Donald Knuth

Donald Knuth Quote: “Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been prepared with the help of a computer.”

53. “Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been prepared with the help of a computer.”

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Donald Knuth Quote: “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.”

54. “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

Donald Knuth Quote: “The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located.”

55. “The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located.”

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Donald Knuth Quote: “God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue.”

56. “God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue.”

— Donald Knuth

Donald Knuth Quote: “The language in which we express our ideas has a strong influence on our thought processes.”

57. “The language in which we express our ideas has a strong influence on our thought processes.”

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Donald Knuth Quote: “The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent.”

58. “The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent.”

— Donald Knuth

Donald Knuth Quote: “A person’s success in life is determined by having a high minimum, not a high maximum. If you can do something really well but there are other things at which you’re failing, the latter will hold you back. But if almost everything you do is up there, then you’ve got a good life. And so I try to learn how to get through things that others find unpleasant.”

59. “A person’s success in life is determined by having a high minimum, not a high maximum. If you can do something really well but there are other things at which you’re failing, the latter will hold you back. But if almost everything you do is up there, then you’ve got a good life. And so I try to learn how to get through things that others find unpleasant.”

— Donald Knuth

Donald Knuth Quote: “Science is knowledge which we understand so well that we can teach it to a computer; and if we don’t fully understand something, it is an art to deal with it.”

60. “Science is knowledge which we understand so well that we can teach it to a computer; and if we don’t fully understand something, it is an art to deal with it.”

— Donald Knuth

Donald Knuth Quote: “TeX has found at least one bug in every Pascal compiler it’s been run on, I think, and at least two in every C compiler.”

61. “TeX has found at least one bug in every Pascal compiler it’s been run on, I think, and at least two in every C compiler.”

— Donald Knuth

Donald Knuth Quote: “Overstimulation has been the real drawback. I need to find ways to stop thinking about analysis of algorithms, in order to do various other things that human beings ought to do.”

62. “Overstimulation has been the real drawback. I need to find ways to stop thinking about analysis of algorithms, in order to do various other things that human beings ought to do.”

— Donald Knuth

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