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

God, Challenge, Existence, Proof

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

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"God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"God's dice always have a lucky roll."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements."

William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet

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"Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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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."

Language

"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."

Machine

"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."

Talent

"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."

Art

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

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"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."

Science

"If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy."

Will

"The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located."

Kitchen

"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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"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."

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