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Famous Donald Knuth Quotes
“Trees sprout up just about everywhere in computer science.”
Source: Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4, Fascicle 4,The: Generating All Trees--History of Combinatorial Generation
“Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.”
“Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.”
“An algorithm must be seen to be believed.”
Source: The Art of Computer Programming: Fundamental algorithms
“Premature optimization is the root of all evil.”
Source: TEX: The Program
“Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random”
Source: Art of Computer Programming, Volume 2: Seminumerical Algorithms