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"My kitchen is not a place to live in. I made it white so I can tell instantly if it's not clean-and I like it clean enough to be able to eat off the floors-or the tables, for that matter."

"I'm in a loft and the kitchen is in the very center of the apartment. The whole place revolves around it."

"For me, it was kind of like going into the military or something. And anybody - any male - who has ever worked in a French kitchen knows what I am talking about when I say that."

"I am spoiled, it's true. I don't even know how to use that thing in the kitchen with the burners."

"The kitchen may not get cleaned, and I have to accept that. I do the important things."

"Good kitchen equipment is expensive, but most items last a lifetime and will pay for themselves over and over again."

"The house is in turmoil with records on every space. In the kitchen and in the dining room is covered with records. I don't have a big enough house to accommodate everything."

"I've never cooked. I can't do much more in the kitchen than make a cup of tea and some toast."
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"The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue."

"Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do."

"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."

"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."
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