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Donald Knuth on Computers

born 1938 United States

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Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.

I can’t be as confident about computer science as I can about biology. Biology easily has 500 years of exciting problems to work on. It’s at that level.

Computer Literacy Bookshops Interview Computer Literacy Bookshops Interview (1993)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Donald Knuth (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.