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"The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent."
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"It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ."
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"Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions."
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"We're all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent."
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"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."
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"He has tongue of a writer."
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"The talent of a true writer and poet is in the ear."
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"Certain abilities in you sometimes yearn to be expressed."
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"Ability and talent never loose the value, because demand for it highly exceeds the supply of it."
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"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."
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"What you are good at, you never do it free!"
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"I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science."
Science
"The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent."
Talent
"The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish."
Machine
"People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones."
Art
"Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do."
Change
"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."
Bugs
"The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located."
Kitchen
"God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue."
God
"In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field."
Computer
"Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do."
Art
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