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| #2211 | | "The C Programming Language -- A language which combines the flexibility of
assembly language with the power of assembly language."
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| #2212 | | The clothes have no emperor.
-- C.A.R. Hoare, commenting on ADA.
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| #2213 | | The computer industry is journalists in their 20's standing in awe of
entrepreneurs in their 30's who are hiring salesmen in their 40's and
50's and paying them in the 60's and 70's to bring their marketing into
the 80's.
-- Marty Winston
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| #2214 | | The computer is to the information industry roughly what the
central power station is to the electrical industry.
-- Peter Drucker
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| #2215 | | "The Computer made me do it."
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| #2216 | | The computing field is always in need of new cliches.
-- Alan Perlis
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| #2217 | | The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems
and solutions we can imagine is very close. For this reason restricting
language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best
dangerous.
-- Bjarne Stroustrup
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| #2218 | | The day-to-day travails of the IBM programmer are so amusing to most of
us who are fortunate enough never to have been one -- like watching
Charlie Chaplin trying to cook a shoe.
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| #2219 | | The debate rages on: Is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?
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| #2220 | | The difference between art and science is that science is what we
understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else.
-- Donald Knuth, "Discover"
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