Donald Knuth Quotes on Programming
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Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming.
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Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
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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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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.