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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.

We Should Forget About Small Efficiencies, Say About 97% Of The Time: Premature Optimization Is The Root Of All Evil. Yet We Should Not Pass Up Our Opportunities In That Critical 3%

The Most Important Thing In The Kitchen Is The Waste Paper Basket And It Needs To Be Centrally Located.

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.

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.