4 Donald Knuth Quotes on Design

Donald Knuth quotes on design

4. The psychological profiling [of a programmer] is mostly the ability to shift levels of abstraction, from low level to high level. To see something in the small and to see something in the large.

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

9. I can't go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu.

17. 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.