My first program taught me a lot about the errors that I was going to be making in the future, and also about how to find errors. That's sort of the story of my life, making errors and trying to recover from them. I try to get things correct. I probably obsess about not making too many mistakes.
Donald KnuthAny inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been prepared with the help of a computer.
Donald KnuthEveryday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.
Donald KnuthI think people who write programs do have at least a glimmer of extra insight into the nature of God... because creating a program often means that you have to create a small universe
Donald KnuthScience is knowledge which we understand so well that we can teach it to a computer; and if we don't fully understand something, it is an art to deal with it.
Donald Knuth