Quotations by Donald Knuth

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.

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 all the rest

Premature optimization is the root of all evil
quoted in Kernighan and Pine, The Unix Programming Environment

If you think you're a really good programmer... read [Knuth's] Art of Computer Programming...You should definitely send me a resume if you can read the whole thing.
[a quote by Bill Gates on the jacket of the third editioin of The Art of Computer Programming]

JOC/EFR February 2006

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