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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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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word frustration. – Alan Perlis

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Computers
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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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If you like overheads, youll love PowerPoint. – Edward Tufte

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Computers

Whats happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process. – Seth Lloyd

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Computers

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark. – Stephen Hawking

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Computers

I am cursed with computers something always goes wrong. – Carla Bruni

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Computers

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He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief. – Jose Marti

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One of the greatest labor-saving inventions of today is tomorrow. – Vincent T. Foss

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The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn. – Jerry Saltz

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