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Donald Knuth Quotes - Page 2

By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality.

Donald E. Knuth (1997). “The Art of Computer Programming: Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms”, p.12, Addison-Wesley Professional

Trees sprout up just about everywhere in computer science.

Donald E. Knuth (2013). “Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4, Fascicle 4,The: Generating All Trees--History of Combinatorial Generation”, p.2, Addison-Wesley Professional

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.

"Computer Programming as an Art". Communications of the ACM, Volume 17, Issue 12, dl.acm.org. December 1974.

How can you own numbers? Numbers belong to the world.

"Working on My Typesetting Program". www.webofstories.com.