108 Quotes by Donald Knuth

Computer programming is an art, because it applies accumulated knowledge to the world, because it requires skill and ingenuity, and especially because it produces objects of beauty. A programmer who subconsciously views himself as an artist will enjoy what he does and will do it better.

AI has by now succeeded in doing essentially everything that requires 'thinking' but has failed to do most of what people and animals do 'without thinking'-that, somehow, is much harder.

Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.

Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random

Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming.

Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been sorted with the help of a computer.

There’s ways to amuse yourself while doing things and thats how I look at efficency.

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.

TeX has found at least one bug in every Pascal compiler it’s been run on, I think, and at least two in every C compiler.