"Always remember, however, that thereâ€™s usually a simpler and better way to do something than the first way that pops into your head."

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Source : Donald Ervin Knuth (1986). “The METAFONTbook”, Addison-Wesley Professional

Donald Knuth

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“The majesty of creation forms my faith in the Creator.”
“America somehow thinks that leadership relates to governance, and it certainly does. But society is much bigger than governance, and some of the truly great leadership of our society is outside the governance arena.”
“Theoretical physicists live in a classical world, looking out into a quantum-mechanical world. The latter we describe only subjectively, in terms of procedures and results in our classical domain.”

Source : "Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics". Book by John Stewart Bell, p. 29, 1987.
“Sometimes I'll go out into the crowd and keep singing, but I'll get maybe seven rows out and I'm out of synch, I'm a couple seconds behind the band and then it becomes chaos.”
“They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, / They brought me bitter news to hear, and bitter tears to shed.”

Source : 'Heraclitus'; translation of Callimachus 'Epigram 2' in R. Pfeiffer (ed.) 'Callimachus' (1949-53)
“The primary concern of the human animal is to avoid rejection and abandonment.”
“People want to build new circuits around the world and they say: 'We'll come to Silverstone and have a look how it's done', and I tell them to stay away.”
“Toad talked big about all he was going to do in the days to come, while stars grew fuller and larger all around them, and a yellow moon, appearing suddenly and silently from nowhere in particular, came to keep them company and listen to their talk.”

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