Citações de donald knuth

1. "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."

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

3. "The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly."

4. "Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can, because I'm in it for the love of programming."

5. "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."

6. "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."

7. "The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it."

8. "I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone."

9. "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 each other, like a wall of mini stones."

10. "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."