"When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart. It changes your life. And that's what happened to me."
"I have seen one shrike occupy himself for hours in sticking up on thorns, a number of small fishes that the fishermen had thrown on the shore. The fishes dried up and decayed."
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Source: Can Programming Be Liberated From the von Neumann Style?. John Backus' 1977 Turing Award lecture, published in Communications of the ACM, Volume 21, No. 8 (pp. 639-640), August 1978.
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