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"A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant."
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"Make It Fun. Have you ever been publicly acknowledged or called upon in a room filled with people? Depending on your personality type, it can be either exhilarating or mortifying. It certainly does grab your attention, as well as everyone else's!"

"If you feel obsessed to prove something to the world, then you'd need world attention to be able to prove it."

"The interparliamentary conference should, in my opinion, direct its particular attention to the preparation of the next Hague Conference, the diplomatic conference, the conference of governments."

"If all you have to offer is a look that is supposed to be appealing, the you are going to be paid attention to about a tenth as long as you would be if when you speak you are interesting."
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"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."

"In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration"."

"A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures."

"I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it."
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