Quotations - Random

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Quote #641 A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
-- William Jame...
Quote #642 There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy.
That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion....
Quote #643 C++ is history repeated as tragedy. Java is history repeated as farce.
-- Scott McKay...
Quote #644 The price of reliability is the pursuit of utmost simplicity.
It is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay....
Quote #645 I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, viz.
"how not to make a mess of it", has not been met. -- Dijkstra (EWD 1304, 2000-11-19)...
Quote #647 No one can write decently who is distrustful of the readers's intelligence, or whose attitude is patronizing.
-- Strunk and White, "The elements of style...
Quote #648 It is time to unmask the computing community as a Secret Society of the Creation and Preservation of Artificial Complexity.
-- Dijkstra (EWD 1243)...
Quote #649 Production speed is severely degraded if one works with half time people, who have other obligations as well.
This is at least a factor four; probably it is worse. The people them...
Quote #650 Simplex Veri Sigillum - simplicity is the seal of truth

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