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Much to the surprise of the builders of the first digital computers, programs written for them usually did not work. — Rodney Brooks
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't. — Alan Perlis
Do you think that civilization advances because of things written in books? Not a bit of what is written in books ever got there until… — Walter Russell
And now I send these pages forth, not knowing what shall befall them, but with the earnest prayer that they may be blessed to aid… — Frederic Farrar
Sparky's the only guy I know who's written more books than he's read. — Ernie Harwell
In contrast to a dream a reverie cannot be recounted. To be communicated, it must be written, written with emotion and taste, being relived all… — Gaston Bachelard
If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worth while. . . . The beauty and cogency… — Samuel Eliot Morison
The act of writing bears something in common with the act of love. The writer, at his most productive moments, just flows. He gives of… — Sidney Jourard
Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say… — Jackson Browne
It is not necessary for a man to be actively bad in order to make a failure in life; simple inaction will accomplish it. Nature… — Unknown Author
The Bible is not primarily a science book. It is not written to tell us how the heavens go; it is written to tell us… — Adrian Rogers
Written truth is four-dimensional. If we consult it at the wrong time, or read it at the wrong place, it is as empty and shapeless… — Robert Grudin
Wonder in everything No matter how great or small... Same thing that's scrawled across the stars Is written under our skin... There's a time to… — David Gray
Shonin: I have composed a poem. Kokushi: Let's hear it. Shonin: When I chant, Both Buddha and self Cease to exist. There is only the… — Takuan Soho
There are not in the world at any one time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato:-never enough to pay for an… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A Writer says: read what I have written An historian says: listen to my lecture A critic says: listen to what I think A journalist… — Gideon Haigh
A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away,… — Elwyn Brooks White
A book unwritten is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and… — Robert Harris
You think it's all written, but it's not. There's always another way to twist those three chords around. — Joe Perry
I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written — Irwin Shaw
In writing ... remember that the biggest stories are not written about wars, or about politics, or even murders. The biggest stories are written about… — Susan Glaspell
I hit adolescence only to discover my autobiography had already been written; plagiarized, in fact, by a man named J.D. Salinger who, in appropriating to… — Stephen Metcalf
I use an Electrix repeater [for live looping]. It works...it's unstable and the MIDI implementation was written by a sped. I think it's Canadian but… — Robin Guthrie
First, we want to establish the idea that a computer language is not just a way of getting a computer to perform operations but rather… — Hal Abelson
A great deal of what many Americans hold dear is nowhere written on those four pages of parchment, or in any of the amendments. What… — Jill Lepore

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