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    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.

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I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black read more

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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

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Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's read more

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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.

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A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot read more

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Science... never solves a problem without creating ten more.

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The internet is a great way to get on the net.

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We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

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Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color read more

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