The best Quotes by Donald E. Knuth

The best Quotes by Donald E. Knuth

Donald Ervin Knuth (born January 10, 1938) is an American computer scientist, mathematician, and professor emeritus at Stanford University.

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

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Marshall: "Except the flames of Lucifer keep singein our back bumper as we drive through this hellish, cheese-infected wasteland."
Lily: "Wisconsin?"
Marshall: "Wisconsin!"

Marshall Eriksen in How I Met Your Mother - Season 9 Episode 3

Another way of enjoying Minnesota is to move to Wisconsin.

Wisconsin Minnesota

Wisconsin girls - the kind of girl you can take home to meet your mom, but can outdrink your dad.

There's a thing in Wisconsin called "deer widows", when all the men leave town to go on hunting trips and the women stay at home, to do whatever it is women do without men.

I was always a Favre fan. I was born in Wisconsin, and my whole family was Packers fans, so I grew up watching him.

Colin Kaepernick

Brett Favre Green Bay Packers Wisconsin

Wisconsin's a special place.

Brett Favre

I've only been to one winery in Wisconsin, and it had a paintball course.

Emily Cooper in Emily in Paris - Season 1 Episode 8

Washington, D.C. is to lying what Wisconsin is to cheese.

Dennis Miller

Washington, D.C.Wisconsin

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Wisconsin - and that's pretty much the same thing.

Philippe: "Tell me Driss, why do you think people are interested in art?"
Driss: "I don't know, it's a business?"
Philippe: "No. That's because it's the only thing one leaves behind."

Driss in Intouchables

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The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.

Albert Einstein in The World As I See It

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Artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up.

Evey Hammond in V for Vendetta

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Art Truth Politicians

Art is a way of survival.

5

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once you grow up.

Pablo Picasso

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Children & Childhood Art

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Oscar Wilde

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A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary.

Andy Warhol

3

Art Photography Pictures

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Pablo Picasso

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Art Daily Routine

Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein

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Religion Science

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Isaac Asimov

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Knowledge Society Science Wisdom

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Albert Einstein

4

Nature & Environment Science

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself anymore.

Albert Einstein

4

Mathematics Science

The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.

Werner Heisenberg

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Science Atheism

Faith and science, I have learned, are two sides of the same coin, separated by an expanse so small, but wide enough that one side can't see the other. They don't know they are connected.

Mary E. Pearson in The Jenna Fox Chronicles - The Adoration of Jenna Fox

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Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.

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Upbringing Science Curiosity

The task is not to see what has never been seen before, but to think what has never been thought before about what you see everyday.

Erwin Schrödinger

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Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

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There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

James Comey

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