Donald Knuth Quotes

Writing's a great skill, but thinking's a better one.

You discover your brain is a powerful tool, something that is so powerful that sometimes you are surprised by the outcomes, how quickly it adapts to situations and how quickly you learn.

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

If you keep your mind active, regularly take on mental challenges, and continually think about the right things, you will develop the disciplined thinking that will help you with whatever you endeavor to do.

Fluid intelligence is not a Big Five personality trait: It's a measurement of one's ability to rapidly learn and apply a rule set. As an entrepreneur, you're rapidly dealing with different issues, and your ability to switch from one issue to another is very important.

I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.

I am mentally bifocal.

A freewheeling mind can conceive a virtually infinite number of sequences, but just how that mind picks out and stores those that may perhaps be used later to deal with a given tension, a given situation, is far beyond my understanding.

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

Fluid intelligence doesn't look much like the capacity to memorise and recite facts, the skills that people have traditionally associated with brainpower.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

My parents encouraged thought. You'll get through life better if you learn how to think.

I'm mentally agile.

Sometimes I can switch into clever mode.

I think, personally, I learn really quick.

I think I have the special ability to process information quickly and dissect defenses.

Mathematicians have a certain type of mind, and climbers have a certain type of mind, because climbing poses these incredibly interesting problems for them.

I reject the notion that human beings have a single intelligence, which can be drawn on for the full range of problem solving.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems

Two key ingredients in any successful chef: a quick learner and someone with a sharp brain.

Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by puzzle-solving ability. It is in the creation of new puzzles reflecting what your senses report that you round out the definitions.

Try fighting with your head for a change... it's a good one, even if it does resist learning.

Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.

help conquer the IQ shortage worry less and think more

Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It only allows you to get stuck in more remote places.