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"If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan."
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"Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog."
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"I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill."
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"The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot."
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"Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software."
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"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all."
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"Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted."
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"Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions."
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"Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer."
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"That was clearly surprising, interesting - a very interesting milestone was when you can pick up a magazine and read an article about some sort of computer related thing and they mention the word internet without explaining it."
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"Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?"
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"One man's constant is another man's variable."
Man
"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
"Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it."
Complexity
"If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan."
Computer
"Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it."
Complexity
"You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN."
Attitude
"A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant."
Attention
"I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it."
People
"Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them."
Ideas
"It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa."
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