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"We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses."
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"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."
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"One great use of words is to hide our thoughts."
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"Never underestimate the power of a simple thought."
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"Knowledge is intellectual art."
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"If we should think, we should dwell on pure thoughts."
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"Knowledge is life."
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"I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency."
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"In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social."
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"You are not a human being, but you are a thinking and dreaming machine."
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"When I used to live in the Brewster Projects, I always thought it would be fantastic to have a phone. I would dream about a phone."
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"It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa."
Change
"Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it."
Complexity
"You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN."
Attitude
"Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer."
Science
"In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm."
Software
"In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration"."
Living
"Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress."
Change
"The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman."
Programming
"A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant."
Attention
"It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical."
Education
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