Program Quotes

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I use a really simple calendar program on my computer. — Jamie Zawinski
Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes. — John Mason Brown
Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory… — Marilyn Hacker
To those who say, my friends, to those who say, that we are rushing this issue of civil rights, I say to them we are… — Hubert H. Humphrey
As the Ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, I have been briefed since 2003 on a highly classified NSA foreign collection program that targeted… — Jane Harman
But people that are worried about unborn babies are the same ones that vote against kindergarten programs in Indiana or school lunch funds out of… — Birch Bayh
In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapon stock, his… — Hillary Clinton
Unification is not our present goal. That is a future program. — Kim Dae-jung
Brian Walker and David Salt have written a thoughtful and powerful book to help resource users and managers put resilience thinking into practice and aim… — Elinor Ostrom
There are no mistakes, there are only correctable errors. There are no errors, there are only alternate programs. — John C. Lilly
All human beings, all persons who reach adulthood in the world today are programmed biocomputers. No one of us can escape our own nature as… — John C. Lilly
A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying ï¬rst a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds terrible.… — Marvin Minsky
Thereâ€™s a great expression in Twelve Step programs: Act as if. Act as if youâ€™re a writer. Sit down and begin. Act as if you… — Dani Shapiro
Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code. — Edsger Dijkstra
In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each… — Edsger Dijkstra
We can and should complain about certain horrors of the modern world, but when it comes to the treatment of mental illness, the advances made… — Rob Delaney
Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be as free. — Richard Stallman
Portability is for people who cannot write new programs — Linus Torvalds
An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program. — Linus Torvalds
If you want an application to be portable, you don't necessarily create an abstraction layer like a microkernel so much as you program intelligently. — Linus Torvalds

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