"Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do." ― Donald Knuth Topic(s): Science More From Donald Knuth "People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird." "Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it." "Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do." More In Science "The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century."― Albert J. Nock "I feel like I’ve done a bunch of period stuff and then a bunch of romantic comedies."― Kate Beckinsale "When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes."― W. H. Auden