Knuth, Donald (Donald Knuth)

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
-- Donald Knuth

The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish.
-- Donald Knuth

... the psychological profiling [of a programmer] is mostly the ability to shift levels of abstraction, from low level to high level. To see something in the small and to see something in the large.
-- Donald Knuth

The important thing, once you have enough to eat and a nice house, is what you can do for others, what you can contribute to the enterprise as a whole.
-- Donald Knuth

... in fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field.
-- Donald Knuth

A list is only as strong as its weakest link.
-- Donald Knuth