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- That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where… — Learned Hand
- Your film is like your children. You might want a child with certain qualities, but you are never going to get the… — Werner Herzog
- The hardest part of the software task is arriving at a complete and consistent specification, and much of the essence of building… — Fred Brooks
- In programming, it’s often the buts in the specification that kill you. — Boris Beizer
- In fact, without a specification of a creature's goals, the very idea of intelligence is meaningless. A toadstool could be given a… — Steven Pinker
- It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa. — Alan Perlis
- Isn't it true that whatever isn't determined by our genes must be determined by our environment? What else is there? There's Nature… — Daniel Dennett
- Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. — Hani