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The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m sec sec.
The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m sec sec.
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.
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
Science... never solves a problem without creating ten more.
Science... never solves a problem without creating ten more.
Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context -- a chair in a room, a room read more
Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context -- a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan. - "Time", July 2, 1956.
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.
Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.
Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.
May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure read more
May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery. -Patrick Blackett.
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think read more
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
