4 Donald Knuth Quotes on Programming

Donald Knuth quotes on programming

1. Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming.

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

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.

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.