"Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it." ― Donald Knuth Topic(s): Beauty More From Donald Knuth "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." "I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one’s contributions to computer science." "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." More In Beauty "Art lies by its own artifice."― Ovid "My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry."― Roberto Benigni "We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined – the impression was overwhelming."― Howard Carter