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“A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.”

“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”

“UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.”

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Author:Dennis Ritchie

“My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies of functions in terms of computational complexity. I got involved in real computers and programming mainly by being - well, I was interested even as I came to graduate school.”

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Author:Dennis Ritchie

“Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.”

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Author:Andy Rooney

“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.”

“One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.”

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Author:Ken Thompson

“A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.”

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Author:Alan Turing

“Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.”

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Author:Steve Wozniak

“What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.”

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Author:Steve Wozniak

“If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.”

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Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.”

“Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.”

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Author:Roger Ebert

“The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.”

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Author:Edsger Dijkstra

“That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.”

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Author:Larry Niven

“Living alone,' November whispered, 'is a skill, like running long distance or programming old computers. You have to know parameters, protocols. You have to learn them so well that they become like a language: to have music always so that the silence doesn't overwhelm you, to perform your work exquisitely well so that your time is filled. You have to allow yourself to open up until you are the exact size of the place you live, no more or else you get restless. No less, or else you drown. There are rules; there are ways of being and not being.”

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Author:Catherynne M. Valente

“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.”

“There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.”