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“An API that isn't comprehensible isn't usable.”

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James Gosling, born in May 1955, is a renowned computer scientist. He is best known for his contributions to the development of the Java programming language, which has had a profound impact on modern software development. more

“You lived and died alone, especially in fighters. Fighters. Somehow, despite everything, that word had not become sterile. You slipped into the hollow cockpit and strapped and plugged yourself into the machine. The canopy ground shut and sealed you off. Your oxygen, your very breath, you carried into the chilled vacuum, in a steel bottle.”

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Book:The Hunters

Source: The Hunters

“The more mechanical becomes the weapons with which we fight, the less mechanical must be the spirit which controls them.”

Spirit Fighting Weapons Aviation Combat

Author:Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell

“To the aircraft I aim, not the man.”

Men He Man Aim Aviation Combat Aircraft

Author:Francesco Baracca

“You don't think much of the individual, because you don't think you've hit him and you hope that he will bail out or something; it's the aeroplane you've hit . . . normally it was more of a game if you like, you were outwitting and shooting down another aircraft, you were simply hitting metal.”

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Author:Peter Malam Brothers

“Of all my accomplishments I may have achieved during the war, I am proudest of the fact that I never lost a wingman.”

May War Facts Lost Accomplishment Aviation Combat Wingman

Author:Erich Hartmann

“It was my view that no kill was worth the life of a wingman. . . . Pilots in my unit who lost wingmen on this basis were prohibited from leading a [section]. The were made to fly as wingman, instead.”

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Author:Erich Hartmann

“And I have yet to find one single individual who has attained conspicuous success in bringing down enemy aeroplanes who can be said to be spoiled either by his successes or by the generous congratulations of his comrades. If he were capable of being spoiled he would not have had the character to have won continuous victories, for the smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Self-distrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his protracted existence.”

Source: Fighting the Flying Circus

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