All Quotes
2989 quotes in total
“Un hombre debe vivir tan cerca de sus superiores como cerca del fuego; ni tan cerca que se queme, ni tan lejos que se hiele”
“Vivir no es un mal, sino mal vivir”
“Yes, stand a little out of my sunshine .”
“Aristotle dines when it seems good to King Philip , but Diogenes when he himself pleases. Plutarch , On Exile , 12”
“If you are to be kept right , you must possess either good friends or red”
“Strike, for you will find no wood hard enough to keep me away from you, so long as I think you've something to say.”
“Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta.”
“Nay, I defeat men, you defeat slaves .”
“Come, see that you obey orders.”
“A child has beaten me in plainness of living.”
“He used to reason as follows: 'Everything belongs to the gods; the wise are friends of the gods; friends hold all things in common; ergo , everything belongs to the wise.' Diogenes Laërtius , vi. 37, as reported in Diogenes the Cynic: Sayings and Anecdotes as translated by Robin Hard ( Oxford : 2012), p. 13”
“Plato had defined Man as an animal, biped and featherless, and was applauded. Diogenes plucked a fowl and brought it into the lecture”
“The Periodic Law of the Chemical Elements”
“In science we must all submit not to what seems to us attractive from one point of view or another, but to what represents an agreement between theory and experiment. Faraday Lecture, the Royal Institution, London (1889) as quoted by Leon Gray, The Basics of the Periodic Table”
“To burn oil!.. You can fuel with money as well.”
“Doctor, you have science, I have faith.”
“I wish to establish some sort of system not guided by chance but by some sort of definite and exact principle .”
“We should still expect to discover many unknown simple bodies; for example, those similar to aluminum and silicon, elements with atomic weights of 65 to 75.”
“I have no need of proof. The laws of nature, unlike the laws of grammar, admit of no exception.”
“I suppose when my unknown elements are found, more people will pay us attention.”
“Chemical Discovery and Invention in the Twentieth Century,”
“Even though Mendeleev always denied that electrons exist, they later turned out to be vital for ordering the elements in his table. Patricia Fara , Science A Four Thousand Year History (2009).”
“Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. Donald Knuth's webpage states the line was used to end a memo entitled Notes on the van Emde Boas construction of priority deques: An instructive use of recursion”
“I can’t be as confident about computer science as I can about biology. Biology easily has 500 years of exciting problems to work on. It’s at that level. Computer Literacy Bookshops Interview Computer Literacy Bookshops Interview (1993) On why bioinformatics is very exciting”
“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. Jack Woehr. An interview with Donald Knuth . Dr. Dobb's Journal , pages 16”
“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. Jack Woehr. An interview with Donald Knuth . Dr. Dobb's Journal , pages 16”
“The whole thing that makes a mathematician’s life worthwhile is that he gets the grudging admiration of three or four colleagues. Jack Woehr. An interview with Donald Knuth . Dr. Dobb's Journal , pages 16”
“Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do. Foreword to the book A=B”
“A mathematical formula should never be "owned" by anybody! Mathematics belong to God . Digital Typography , ch. 1, p. 8”
“I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof . Digital Typography , ch. 33, p. 649”