Charles E. Leiserson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.
Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing.
Any approach to scientific inference which seeks to legitimize it and answer in reponse to complex uncertainty is, for me, a totalitarian parody of a would-be rational learning process.
I invented the term 'Object-Oriented', and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
Optimization hinders evolution.
If you think something is impossible, don't disturb the person who is doing it!
Your choice of programming model also is your choice of programming model, so to speak.
Perfect reusable components are not obtained at the first shot.
Ask not first what the system does; ask what it does it to!
It is better to teach a few things perfectly than many things indifferently.

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