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- Lisp has jokingly been called "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer". I think that description is a great compliment because it transmits the…
- We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremendous difficulty, provided that we…
- ... as a slow-witted human being I have a very small head and I had better learn to live with it and to respect my…
- The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever…
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- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Bad men are full of repentance. — Aristotle
- If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur. — Matthew Arnold
- I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my… — Arthur Ashe
- Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world,… — Chinua Achebe
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood
- When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty. — Saint Augustine
- Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles,… — Sai Baba
- Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world… — Sai Baba
- I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope… — Charles Babbage