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

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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. – Alan Perlis

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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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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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A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you. – Daniel J. Boorstin

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A lot of journalists like to suck up to celebrities, and then as soon as theyre a safe distance away at their computers, they take shots. But thats the way society has become, especially in pop culture. – Scott Weiland

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The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who dont understand computers. – Adam Osborne

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Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software. – Linus Torvalds

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They have a right to censure that have a heart to help. – William Penn

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Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing. – John Locke

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Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. – John Gardner

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My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. Shes a professor in Boston, and shes been teaching womens studies for 30 years and international politics. – Eliza Dushku

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