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If you find that you're spending almost all your time on theory, start turning some attention to practical things; it will improve your theories. If you find that you're spending almost all your time on practice, start turning some attention to theoretical things; it will improve your practice.

— Donald Knuth Arturo Gonzalez-Gutierrez (2007)

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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.

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The sun comes up just about as often as it goes down, in the long run, but this doesn't make its motion random.

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

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