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Donald Knuth

"If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy."

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"At that point, there will be the handover between the shuttle arm and the station arm so that the shuttle arm will take the cradle and put it into the cargo bay."

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"Individuals will speak their minds, which I think is healthy."

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"I will be conquered; I will not capitulate."

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"We will rebuild, renew and remain the capital of the free world."

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"I have some great stories and I will get around to writing a book."

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"It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow."

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"The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds."

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"One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived."

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"The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language."
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"The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish."
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"In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field."
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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."
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