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Under the spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You can walk as carefully as you want through a mine field; it is still a mine field. But it's also true that if you… — Dave Sim
Yes, I share your concern: how to program well -though a teachable topic- is hardly taught. The situation is similar to that in mathematics, where… — Edsger Dijkstra
What is the central core of the subject [computer science]? What is it that distinguishes it from the separate subjects with which it is related?… — Tony Hoare
One purpose of CRC cards [a design tool] is to fail early, to fail often, and to fail inexpensively. It is a lot cheaper to… — Unknown Author
If you have a large number of unrelated ideas, you have to get quite a distance away from them to get a view of all… — John G. Kemeny
Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow (e.g., given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the… — Eric S. Raymond
... the designer of a new system must not only be the implementor and the first large-scale user; the designer should also write the first… — Donald Knuth
Intellectual knowledge exists in and of the brain. Because the brain is part of the body, which must one day expire, this collection of facts,… — Laozi
Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in particular with the… — Wilhelm Wundt
The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large. — Wilhelm Wundt
...a student attains 'higher order thinking' when he no longer believes in right or wrong". "A large part of what we call good teaching is… — Benjamin Bloom
Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small. — Orison Swett Marden
If the Marines are abolished half the efficiency of the Navy will be destroyed. They are as necessary to the well being of a ship… — David Dixon Porter
Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies,… — Dave Barry
Although it is tempting to think of these natural landscapes as reflecting a stability in climactic and geologic forces, long periods of climactic and geophysical… — David Holmgren
We'd love to be involved with the creation of something very special, something quite large and something quite exciting. — Richard Branson
Americans often did not realize that their Marine Corps was a force without counterpart in the world. European navies used Marines for limited duties on… — Unknown Author
The large shiny black forehead of the first whale was no more than two yards from us when it sank beneath the surface of the… — Virginia Woolf
You cannot hear the name Martin Luther King, Jr., and not think of death. You might hear the words 'I have a dream,' but they… — Michael Eric Dyson

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