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

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Source : Memorandum to Peter van Emde Boas, 29 Mar. 1977

Donald Knuth

#Funny Inspirational Quotes #Bugs Quotes #Computer Quotes

“I say 20 words in English. I say money, money, money, and I say hot dog! I say yes, no and I say money, money, money and I say turkey sandwich and I say grape juice.”
“you cannot make a person believe anything unless that person has already had a conscious or unconscious vision of the same thing; you have no conviction of truth unless you have already apprehended it intuitively.”
“That's what prison did for me, it isolated me, you know, it polished me up like a stone.”
“The single spirit doth simultaneously temper the whole together; this is the single soul of all things; all are filled with God .”
“My mom always told me if I love what I'm doing and I'm having fun then just continue to do it. But if it's not fun for me anymore and I'm miserable, then I'm going to go back to Texas and quit it all, to be honest.”
“I regard it (the Constitution) as the work of the purest patriots and wisest statesman that ever existed, aided by the smiles of a benign Providence; it almost appears a "Divine interposition in our behalf... the hand that destroys our Constitution rends our Union asunder forever.”
“The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.”
“I keep a lot of my problems bottled up inside me. That's why it's good, it's bad because I go through it, but it's really, what the fu*k I'm going through. That's why I ain't able to cry, I could try to make myself cry and it won't happen. But at the same time somebody could hear my song and they gonna cry for me.”

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