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Donald Knuth


Professor Emeritus of the Art of Computer Programming at Stanford University, is a renowned computer scientist and winner of the 1974 Turing Award.
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Donald Knuth
An algorithm must be seen to be believed.
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How can you own [...] numbers? Numbers belong to the world.
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In fact, my main conclusion after spending ten years of my life working on the TEX project is that software is hard. It’s harder than anything else I’ve ever had to do.




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Trees sprout up just about everywhere in computer science...
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I can’t be as confident about computer science as I can about biology. Biology easily has 500 years of exciting problems to work on. It’s at that level.
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