Donald Knuth Quotes on Design
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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.
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I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof.
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I can't go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu.
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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.