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"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."
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"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 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."
"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."
"Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do."
"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."
"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."
"God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue."
"The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located."
"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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"I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly."
"The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission."
"Among all the machines, motorcar is my favorite machine."
"Before you can hit the jackpot, you have to put a coin in the machine."
"It's great to just disappear, grab a suitcase, switch the answering machine on and just go somewhere else."
"You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine."
"Our bodies are machines and have to be functional, and to do that they have to be fed properly."
"The whole publicity machine is a very weird one. It's kind of a necessary part of what we do here, but this helps me keep grounded."
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