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Ken Thompson

"One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't."

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"One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't."

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"Yet the wonder of it all is that, while engaged in a seemingly endless struggle, the Israelis have managed to turn a desert into a garden."

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"That is, the only reason salvation is necessary is to get us back to the garden. The Pentateuch not only presents where we began but also why we are not there any more, and why and how we need to get back."

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"Unauthorized access to computer systems is already a serious crime in a few states and is currently being addressed in many more state legislatures as well as Congress."
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"In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises."
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