Today while looking up something else I came across these two gems, though, and thought I'd share:
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil"and
"If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy."I sometimes think Knuth is like the Mae West of Computer Science. Or maybe Confucius. Which I guess makes Stallman... Sun Tzu? :-)
RMS is Jesus.
ReplyDeleteNot being a computer scientist, I had to read up on Knuth in Wikipedia - including the section devoted to Humor, and now feel that I have missed something utterly profound in my life. I especially loved the quotation, "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." This actually sounds a lot like developing molecular biology protocols.
ReplyDeleteDon't you mean
ReplyDeleteecho fortune /path/to/knuth/quotes >> ~/.zlogin
or to whatever shell script is run when you login?
Yes, but, first off:
ReplyDelete$ type fortune
-bash: type: fortune: not found
Second, I'd have to download the file and format it.
And third, my shell is already wicked slow, so I should really troubleshoot that before doing anything else.
Etc. Mostly I'm planning to get a new machine this summer, and then I'll deck it out all pretty with some Knuth :)