Quotes by Donald Knuth

"Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it."

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"Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do."

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"People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones."

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"I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics; but I trust my family jewels only to Linux."

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