“Overstimulation has been the real drawback. I need to find ways to stop thinking about analysis of algorithms, in order to do various other things that human beings ought to do.”
Donald Ervin Knuth, Selected Papers on Computer Science“An algorithm must be seen to be believed.”
Donald Ervin Knuth, Leaders in Computing: Changing the digital world“Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer art is everything else.”
Donald Ervin Knuth, Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About