Top 6 Donald Ervin Knuth Quotes

#1. 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.

Donald Ervin Knuth

#2. Nearly every example of faulty reasoning that has been published is accompanied by the phrase "of course" or its equivalent.

Donald Ervin Knuth

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

Donald Ervin Knuth

#4. Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.

Donald Ervin Knuth

#5. Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute.

Donald Ervin Knuth

#6. An algorithm must be seen to be believed.

Donald Ervin Knuth

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