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Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
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We're making a major move of the Internet, and runway.polo.com is a natural extension of both polo.com and our collection business.
The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and read more
The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it.
Touch a scientist and you touch a child.
Touch a scientist and you touch a child.
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.
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. 
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to read more
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.