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Philosophy &Science Entropy | 03 Aug 2007

Love at First Byte- Story of Donald Knuth

Among the many enduring passions of Donald Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming is only the one with the most pages.

In 1957, a lanky, bespectacled college student named Donald Knuth caught a glimpse of a beautiful stranger through a window and fell deeply in love. The object of his affection blinked enticingly back at him. It was an IBM Type 650, one of the earliest mass-produced computers and the first Knuth had ever seen. Although computer science wasn’t even really a science yet, Knuth was a goner.

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http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2006/mayjun/features/knuth.html

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Theme

One of the attributes that makes us human is that we try to make sense of things that don't make sense. We often impute order where there may be none...

These traits occasionally can lead us to form conclusions that don't correspond to reality ..

Poetry & Entropy

If you ask me what my poetry is, I must answer : I don’t know but if you ask my poetry, it will tell you who I am -- Pablo Neruda

Passion

The voice of Passion is better than voice of reason. The passionless can not change history- Czeslaw Milosz

Reflection

To be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle that any human being can fight--and never stop fighting. -E.E. Cummings

Thoughts

I should not talk so much about myself if there was anybody else whom I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience. - Henry David Thoreau

Conscience

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it. -Madame De Stael-

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Art

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music. -Joan Miro.

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Beauty

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