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"If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me."
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"All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine."
"If you want to be immortal, don't ever think about retirement."
"If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality."
"Immortal amarant, a flower which onceIn paradise, fast by the tree of life,Began to bloom; but soon for man's offenceTo heaven removed, where first it grew, there grows,And flowers aloft, shading the fount of life,And where the river of bliss through midst of heavenRolls o'er elysian flowers her amber stream:With these that never fade the spirits electBind their resplendent locks."
"If Hori were to die, I should not forget! Hori is a song in my heart for ever... That means-that there is no more death..."
"The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever."
"Death. It was something I had to think about once. Weird, right? Strange that death was ever an inevitable end, but it wasn't anymore. Not really. I eluded it. Tricked it. It was an odd concept-the world aged, moved forward, yet I . . . didn't."
"That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material."
"When you can't die, she thought, everything sounds like a clock ticking."
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"Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians."
"APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums."
"Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure."
"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."
"The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called "life", expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing."
"The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings."
"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense."
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."
"Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California."
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