Quote #8

I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof.

More from Donald Knuth

  1. A mathematical formula should never be 'owned' by anybody! Mathematics belong to God.
  2. I can't go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu.
  3. Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
  4. Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of thing…
  5. The important thing, once you have enough to eat and a nice house, is what you can do for others, what you can contribute to the enterprise…
  6. An algorithm must be seen to be believed.
  7. The psychological profiling [of a programmer] is mostly the ability to shift levels of abstraction, from low level to high level. To see so…
  8. 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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