P. J. Plauger famous quotes
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My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
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Where there are two bugs, there is likely to be a third.
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By long-standing tradition, I take this opportunity to savage other designers in the thin disguise of good, clean fun.
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If everybody's behavior can be explained by simple stupidity and greed, there's no point in assuming a conspiracy.
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Beyond 100,000 lines of code, you should probably be coding in Ada.
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The stored-program digital computer has three major attributes: it is fast, it is accurate, and it is stupid. The first two attributes are often used to disguise the third.
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I think very highly of myself. I think I'm capable of a lot of things on the field.
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Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there because you believe you are good in your field, and you can contribute, not because you are going to get a lot of fame or whatever when you get back.
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I was a wonderful parent before I had children. I was an expert on why everyone else was having problems with theirs. Then I had three of my own.
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In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.
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We are all experts in our own little niches.
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If I just produce the transparent ideal accepted by the Western experts, a process of privatization which will be very good but never happen, that means nothing.
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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The very definition of 'beauty' is outside.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".
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For me, there has never been one definition of beauty. I think we all have something to offer and when beauty shines from within, there can be no denying it
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