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- John von Neumann draws attention to what seemed to him a contrast. He remarked that for simple mechanisms, it is often easier to describe how…
- Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
- If you want more effective programmers, you will discover that they should not waste their time debugging, they should not introduce the bugs to start…
- Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes, biology is about microscopes or chemistry is about beakers and test tubes. Science…
- PL/1, the fatal disease, belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set.
- Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
- The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
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