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Quotes from Computer Programming as an Art — Donald Knuth

born 1938 United States

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In this sense, we should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.

Computer Programming as an Art (1974)

Science is knowledge which we understand so well that we can teach it to a computer; and if we don't fully understand something, it is an art to deal with it.

Computer Programming as an Art (1974)

The real problem is that programmers have spent far too much time worrying about efficiency in the wrong places and at the wrong times; premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming.

Computer Programming as an Art (1974)

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