How can you own [...] numbers? Numbers belong to the world. - Donald Knuth

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How can you own [...] numbers? Numbers belong to the world.

Donald Knuth

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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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I can’t be as confident about computer science as I can about biology. Biology easily has 500 years of exciting problems to work on. It’s at that level.

In this sense, we should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.

People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.

How can you own [...] numbers? Numbers belong to the world. - Donald Knuth

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