American
Scientist
American Scientist
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A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.
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When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much duplication of process. It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information.
