Donald Ervin Knuth book The Art of Computer Programming
Vol. I, preface (October 1967) to the first edition. (p. x 1973, p. ix 1997)
The Art of Computer Programming (1968–2011)
“Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.”
"The Game of the Law" In Law and Literature and Other Essays and Addresses (1931), p. 163
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