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“Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.”
— Donald Knuth's webpage states the line was used to end a memo entitled Notes on the van Emde Boas construction of priority deques: An instructive use of recursion (1977)
“Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.”
— Foreword to the book A=B (1996)
“Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration.”
— Email (let's drop the hyphen) Donald Knuth's Stanford University web page
“People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.”
— Vol. I Fasc. 1, "MMIX, a RISC computer for the new millennium"
“Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been sorted with the help of a computer.”
— Vol. III, Sorting and Searching, End of index (1973)
“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.”
— "Literate Programming", The Computer Journal 27 (1984), p. 97. (Reprinted in Literate Programming, 1992, p. 99.)

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