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The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
-- Heywood Brou...
The use of anthropomorphic terminology when dealing with computing systems is a symptom of professional immaturity.
-- Edsger Dijkstra...
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 17, Number 5...
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
-- E.W. Dijkstra...
The use of money is all the advantage there is to having money. -- B. Frankli
The value of a program is proportional to the weight of its output.
The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common.
Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views ....
The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me. -- Miguel de Cervante
The Vet Who Surprised A Cow In the course of his duties in August 1977, a Dutch veterinary surgeon was required to treat an ailing cow.
To investigate its internal gases he inserted a tube into tha...

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