That quote is not by Knuth, it's from Abelson and Sussman: https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-7.html https://mitpress.mit

That quote is not by Knuth, it's from Abelson and Sussman: https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-7.html https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/... It's also a problematic quote, because it gives people the impression that they can just ignore that there's an actual computer running their code.