Donald Knuth Quotes

My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.

When you are through changing, you are through.

Art is science made clear.

There are no shortcuts in evolution.

As with anything creative, change is inevitable.

Modern civilization depends on science …

I always think that change is like a daisy chain.

Science, engineering, and technology have transformed the infrastructure of the modern world and have a vital role to play at the heart of policy making.

I think we're at a really critical time in terms of art, and I think it's totally possible to have a project that is entertaining but also moving the cultural needle forward. I think it's one of the reasons I'm so grateful to work on 'Billions.'

This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified.

Change is a process not an event.

You have to keep evolving.

During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change.

The intelligent use of science and technology are the tools with which to achieve a new direction.

There have been countless changes in the long history of art. The most significant have been brought about by the genius of a single artist.

Change demands new learning.

To make progress we have to build a multi-stakeholder process, harnessing the appropriate energies.

Art demands of us that we shall not stand still.

I think change is always a good thing. Change keeps things moving.

Becoming is better than being

The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.

We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished.

Generations are as the days of toilsome mankind; death and birth are the vesper and the matin bells that summon mankind to sleep and to rise refreshed for new advancement. What the father has made, the son can make and enjoy; but has also work of his own appointed him. Thus all things wax and roll onwards: arts, establishments, opinions, nothing is ever completed, but ever completing.

If you don't EVOLVE, you dissolve. You evolve or you evaporate.