These machines have no common sense; they have not yet learned to "think," and they do exactly as they are told, no more and no less. This fact is the hardest concept to grasp when one first tries to use a computer


The Art of Computer Programming: Fundamental algorithms (ed. Addison Wesley Publishing Company, 1973)

Donald Knuth Quotes

These machines have no common sense; they have not yet learned to think, and they do exactly as they are told, no more and no less. This fact is the...

These machines have no common sense; they have not yet learned to think, and they do exactly as they are told, no more and no less. This fact is the...

These machines have no common sense; they have not yet learned to think, and they do exactly as they are told, no more and no less. This fact is the...

These machines have no common sense; they have not yet learned to think, and they do exactly as they are told, no more and no less. This fact is the...