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I say, technically, I don't think anyone in the world knows how to do such a thing. and I feel confident it will not be done for a very long period to come. I think we can leave that out of our thinking. I wish the American public would leave that out of their thinking.
Vannevar Bush
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The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships.
Vannevar Bush
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The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.
Vannevar Bush
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A belief may be larger than a fact.
Vannevar Bush
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I have no knowledge other than that gained through my own eyes.
Vannoccio Biringuccio
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The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.
Paul E. Gray
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Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
Hal Abelson
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A long life is a life well spent.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Successful people breed success.
Phil Crosby
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I've always been pleased with the investments I've made with my friend Albert Frere and I regret not having followed him more, because I would have been a lot richer.
Bernard Arnault
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Most talk about 'super-geniuses' is nonsense. I have found that when 'stars' drop out, successors are usually at hand to fill their places, and the successors are merely men who have learned by application and self-discipline to get full production from an average, normal brain.
Charles M. Schwab
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This cement can be used in any situation and for any purpose to which any other mortar or hydraulic cement can be applied. It does not become perfectly hard within one or two months.
Canvass White
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India's place in the sun would come from the partnership between wisdom of its rural people and skill of its professionals
Verghese Kurien
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I have often spoken of integrity as the most important of these values, realizing that integrity – and personal integrity, at that – is being honest to yourself. If you are always honest to yourself, it does not take much effort in always being honest with others.
Verghese Kurien
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Lisp is still #1 for key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and condescension.
Verity Stob
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Whereas smaller computer languages have features designed into them, C++ is unusual in having a whole swathe of functionality discovered, like a tract of 19th century Africa.
Verity Stob
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The primary duty of an exception handler is to get the error out of the lap of the programmer and into the surprised face of the user. Provided you keep this cardinal rule in mind, you can't go far wrong.
Verity Stob
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Most papers in computer science describe how their author learned what someone else already knew.
Peter Landin
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Ahmadinejad is just a buffoon, sort of a clown on the international scene who tries to be provocative so he can get his name in the paper and his face on television.
Jimmy Carter
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Business is never as healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.
Henry Ford
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I don't like sitting at a keyboard.
Owsley Stanley
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Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I'm on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoint of time, standing on the foreboding - yet beautiful - Sea of Tranquility. I could see our shining blue planet Earth poised in the darkness of space.
Buzz Aldrin
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I never was in such a horrid office . . . It's not very nice to be where people are being swindled all day long, is it?
Nevil Shute
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The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
Gottfried Leibniz
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