Lewis Carroll
Author, Mathematician
"I'm doubtful about the temper of your flamingo. Shall I try the experiment?"
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Programming
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Alan Turing
Mathematician, Logician, Cryptanalyst
"Machines take me by surprise with great frequency."
George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, Critic
"All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct."
Ray Bradbury
Author
"I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it."
Khalil Gibran
Poet, Writer
"Vague and nebulous is the beginning of all things, but not their end."
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"To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion."
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"When in doubt, use brute force."
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"If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there."
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"Never hesitate to ask a lesser person."
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"You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself."
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"If you don’t take responsibility for programming yourself, then someone else will."
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"It is tact that is golden, not silence."
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"Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded."
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"The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you."
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"Culture is your operating system."
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"Programming is an explanatory activity."
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"In the particular is contained the universal."
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"I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another."
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"Once the business data have been centralized and integrated, the value of the database is greater than the sum of the preexisting parts."
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"Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it."
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"There is this thing called the GPL (Gnu Public Licence), which we disagree with... nobody can ever improve the software."
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"A good way to have good ideas is by being unoriginal."
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"It [AI] would take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete and would be superseded."
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"Stupidity is the only natural capital offense."
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"Don't worry about how things are. Watch where they are headed."
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