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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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.
That's the nature of researchyou don't know what in hell you're doing. -'Doc' Edgerton.
That's the nature of researchyou don't know what in hell you're doing. -'Doc' Edgerton.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power read more
Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.
What is research, but a blind date with knowledge.
What is research, but a blind date with knowledge.
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.
The dedicated physician is constantly striving for a balance between personal, human values, scientific realities and the inevitabilities of God's read more
The dedicated physician is constantly striving for a balance between personal, human values, scientific realities and the inevitabilities of God's will.
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. - Essays, 1625.
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. - Essays, 1625.
