List of Donald Knuth Quotes

It Would Be Nice If We Could Design A Virtual Reality In Hyperbolic Space, And Meet Each Other There.

In Fact, My Main Conclusion After Spending Ten Years Of My Life Working On The Tex Project Is That Software Is Hard. It's Harder Than Anything Else I've Ever Had To Do.

For His Major Contributions To The Analysis Of Algorithms And The Design Of Programming Languages, And In Particular For His Contributions To The "art Of Computer Programming" Through His Well-known Books In A Continuous Series By This Title.

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.

I Define Unix As 30 Definitions Of Regular Expressions Living Under One Roof.

The Sun Comes Up Just About As Often As It Goes Down, In The Long Run, But This Doesn't Make Its Motion Random.

We Should Continually Be Striving To Transform Every Art Into A Science: In The Process, We Advance The Art.

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.

I Can't Be As Confident About Computer Science As I Can About Biology. Biology Easily Has 500 Years Of Exciting Problems To Work On. It's At That Level.

There's Ways To Amuse Yourself While Doing Things And Thats How I Look At Efficency.

I'm Obsessively Detail-oriented.

I've Never Been A Good Estimator Of How Long Things Are Going To Take.