Trees sprout up just about everywhere in computer science... - Donald Knuth

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Trees sprout up just about everywhere in computer science...

Donald Knuth

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About Donald Knuth

Donald Ervin Knuth (born 10 January 1938) is an American computer scientist, Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, and winner of the 1974 Turing Award.

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Native Name: Donald Ervin Knuth

Alternative Names: Donald E. Knuth • Don Knuth • D.E.K. • DEK • Knuth

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Let's face it, if there were 10 people like me in the world, we wouldn't have time to read each other's books.

The important thing, once you have enough to eat and a nice house, is what you can do for others, what you can contribute to the enterprise as a whole.

The whole thing that makes a mathematician’s life worthwhile is that he gets the grudging admiration of three or four colleagues.