Quotes by Donald Ervin Knuth

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer art is everything else.

An algorithm must be seen to be believed.

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.

“We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.”

“Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.”