"You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN."
-Alan Perlis
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"A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God."
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"If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan."
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"In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'."
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"It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical."
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"I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it."
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"Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century."
-Bertrand Russell
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"Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art."
-Will Durant
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"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."
-Albert Einstein
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"False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness."
-Charles Darwin
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"Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature."
-Jacob Bronowski
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"Reason, observation, and experience the holy trinity of science."
-Robert Green Ingersoll
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