17 ordspråk av Donald Knuth
Donald Knuth
 A list is only as strong as its weakest link. |
| An algorithm must be seen to be believed. |
| Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been sorted with the help of a computer. |
| Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. |
| God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue. |
| I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science. |
| If you find that you're spending almost all your time on theory, start turning some attention to practical things; it will improve your theories. If you find that you're spending almost all your time on practice, start turning some attention to theoretical things; it will improve your practice. |
| If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy. |
| 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. |
| Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do. |
| My feeling is that when we prepare a program, the experience can be just like composing poetry or music; as Andrei Ershov has said, programming can give us both intellectual and emotional satisfaction, because it is a real achievement to master complexity and to establish a system of consistent rules. |
| Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming. |
| Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do. |
| 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. |
| The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent. |
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