"The designer of a new kind of system must participate fully in the implementation."

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Donald Knuth

#Design Quotes #Kind Quotes #Software Quotes

“People are very independent. And what I have seen with all the unions is that you have members who, regardless of who their union choose to endorse, ultimately want to exercise their own judgment and want to vote for the person they feel is best.”
“From 50 centuries, we can learn about the close relationship between garden design and urban design, because both arts involve the composition of buildings with paving, landform, water, vegetation and climate.”
“Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.”
“Serendipity... You will understand it better by the derivation than by the definition. I once read a silly fairy tale, called 'The Three Princes of Serendip': as their Highnesses traveled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of.”

Source : Letter to Horace Mann, 28 Jan. 1754. Coinage of the word serendipity.
“The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components,”
“We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.”
“Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.”
“I remember my friends at primary and secondary school admiring my work and even paying me money for some of my pieces.”

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