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( – ) Verified "Premature optimization is the root of all evil." "The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish." -- on the biggest challenge facing programmers today "... the psychological profiling [of a programmer] is mostly the ability to shift levels of abstraction, from low level to high level. To see something in the small and to see something in the large." Source: Jack Woehr. An interview with Donald Knuth. Dr. Dobb's Journal, pages 16-22, April 1996. "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it" () Source: Donald Knuth's webpage states the line was used to end a memo entitled Notes on the van Emde Boas construction of priority deques: An instructive use of recursion. "Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do." () Source: Foreward to the book A=B "Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been sorted with the help of a computer." Source: "Sorting and Searching" Attributed "The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language." "... 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." "A list is only as strong as its weakest link." "An algorithm must be seen to be believed."
Verified "Premature optimization is the root of all evil." "The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish." -- on the biggest challenge facing programmers today "... the psychological profiling [of a programmer] is mostly the ability to shift levels of abstraction, from low level to high level. To see something in the small and to see something in the large." Source: Jack Woehr. An interview with Donald Knuth. Dr. Dobb's Journal, pages 16-22, April 1996. "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it" () Source: Donald Knuth's webpage states the line was used to end a memo entitled Notes on the van Emde Boas construction of priority deques: An instructive use of recursion. "Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do." () Source: Foreward to the book A=B "Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been sorted with the help of a computer." Source: "Sorting and Searching" Attributed "The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language." "... 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." "A list is only as strong as its weakest link." "An algorithm must be seen to be believed."