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"Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator."
"Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction."
"It's a long story. I'll make it short as I can."
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"Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians."
"APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums."
"Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure."
"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."
"The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called "life", expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing."
"The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings."
"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense."
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."
"Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California."
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