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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 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
"God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue."
God
"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."
Computer
"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."
Bugs
"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
"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
"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
"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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"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."
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Personal Development
"Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God."
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Personal Development
"I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul."
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Personal Development
"There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will."
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Personal Development
"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."
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Personal Development
"Conscience is God present in man."
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Personal Development
"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another."
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Personal Development
"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."
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Personal Development
"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."
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Personal Development
"Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid."
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Personal Development
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