Donald Knuth
Donald Knuth
Donald Ervin Knuthis an American computer scientist, mathematician, and professor emeritus at Stanford University...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMathematician
Date of Birth10 January 1938
CountryUnited States of America
thinking animal people
AI has by now succeeded in doing essentially everything that requires 'thinking' but has failed to do most of what people and animals do 'without thinking'-that, somehow, is much harder.
unhappy unhappiness ifs
If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
art want computer
Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.
everyday life-is-like programming
Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.
art math science
Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
engineering algorithms computer-science
An algorithm must be seen to be believed.
numbers method should
Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random