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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan. -

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan. – Alan Perlis

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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical. – Alan Perlis

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Education
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Alan Perlis
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it. – Alan Perlis

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Technology
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Other Quotes from
Computers
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Thats the new way – with computers, computers, computers. Thats the way we can have the cell survive and get some new information in high resolution. We started about five years ago and, today, I think we have reached the target. – Lennart Nilsson

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Computers

People are on their computers more than watching TV, because you can only watch voyeur TV, which is basically what reality shows are, for so long. – Stephen Root

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Computers

I got up with my wife, I sat down at the computer when she went to work, and I didnt stop until she got home. – George Stephen

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Computers

We have an epidemic of sexual predators following our children, whether it be on the computers, whether it be in our public parks, whether it be in the workplace, or even our schools. – Jon Porter

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Computers

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A promise made is a debt unpaid. – Robert Service

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Id rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous. – Ani DiFranco

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Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream. – Donald G. Mitchell

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