If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
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There's ways to amuse yourself while doing things and thats how I look at efficency.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.
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Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
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Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been sorted with the help of a computer.
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The difference between art and science is that science is what people understand well enough to explain to a computer. All else is art.
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God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue.
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