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The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of read more
The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions. -Unknown.
Men have become the tools of their tools.
Men have become the tools of their tools.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't.".
The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't.".
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the read more
The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge. Provide you could pay and read, what was on the shelves in the new bookshops was yours for the taking. The speed with which printing presses and their operators fanned out across Europe is extraordinary. From the single Mainz press of 1457, it took only twenty-three years to establish presses in 110 towns: 50 in Ita!0 in Germany, 9 in France, 8 in Spain, 8 in Holland, 4 in England, and so on.
FORTRAN --'the infantile disorder'--, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in read more
FORTRAN --'the infantile disorder'--, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.
PL/I --'the fatal disease'-- belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set.
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.
APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.
The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.
The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.
It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out read more
It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.
