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"Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California."
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"The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my favorite thing that I've done."
"I never look forward, because I have no idea about how any of it happened to getting here. I've no idea how the next five years are going to be."
"You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a television series. I want to do dramas as well as comedies, but I have no idea what kind or in what order. Just give me the chance at them."
"Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us."
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"Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable."
"You can always borrow ideas; but unless you improve them very significantly, never behave as if they are your own!"
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"Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians."
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"Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure."
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"Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons."
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