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"A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do."
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"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."
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"There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more."
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"It is not age but experience that brings wisdom."
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"From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn."
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"I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects."
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"You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you."
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"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
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"Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young."
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"I am already inherently full and complete as I am. Man doesn't need woman and woman doesn't need man in order to experience his or her inherent fullness."
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"Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience."
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"In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever."
World
"Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy is another fallacy."
People
"But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs."
Design
"My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation."
Being
"Usually its users discover sooner or later that their program does not deliver all the desired results, or worse, that the results requested were not the ones really needed."
Result
"Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence."
Management
"The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed."
Work
"Yet, I am convinced that there is a need for high quality software, and the time will come when it will be recognized that it is worth investing effort in its development and in using a careful, structured approach based on safe, structured languages."
Time
"The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision."
Decision
"But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity."
Work
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