My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the text into my machine. Donald Knuth Read Quote
To me, it looks more or less like the hardware designers have run out of ideas and that they’re trying to pass the blame for the future demise of Moore’s Law to the software writers by giving us machines that work faster only on a few key benchmarks! Donald Knuth Read 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. Donald Knuth Read Quote
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 one’s contributions to computer science. Donald Knuth Read Quote
In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That’s what really advances the field. Donald Knuth Read Quote
There’s ways to amuse yourself while doing things and thats how I look at efficency. Donald Knuth Read Quote
I’ll never know everything. My life would be a lot worse if there was nothing I knew the answers about – and if there was nothing I didn’t know the answers about. Donald Knuth Read Quote
Email is a wonderful thing for those people whose role in life is to be on top of things, but not for me: my role is to be on the bottom of things. Donald Knuth Read Quote
