The best Quotes by Donald Knuth

The best Quotes by Donald Knuth

Donald Ervin Knuth (born January 10, 1938) is an American computer scientist, mathematician, and professor emeritus at Stanford University. He is the 1974 recipient of the ACM Turing Award, informally considered the Nobel Prize of computer science. Knuth has been called the "father of the analysis of algorithms".

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.

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.

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.

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!"

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Another way of enjoying Minnesota is to move to Wisconsin.

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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.

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Wisconsin's a special place.

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

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

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

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.

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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.

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I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.

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I will do everything if confirmed as FBI director to make sure the American public knows the full weight of what happened.

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