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Computer language Quote by John Dewey

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“One can think effectively only when one is willing to endure suspense and to undergo the trouble of searching.”

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“The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.”

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Doctrine that eliminates or even obscures the function of choice of values and enlistment of desires and emotions in behalf of those chosen weakens…

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There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts…

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Men live in a community in virtue of the things which they have in common; and communication is the way in which they come…

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We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.

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But progress in knowledge has made us aware of the superficiality of Plato's lumping of individuals and their original powers into a few sharply…

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Even the alleged benefits of war, so far as more than alleged, spring from the fact that conflict of peoples at least enforces intercourse…

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If you cannot grok the overall structure of a program while taking a shower, you are not ready to code it.

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I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot…

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Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

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The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.

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A teacher's job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded.

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Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance.

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Programming languages, like pizzas, come in only too sizes; too big and too small.

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