Christopher Strachey famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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It is impossible to forsee the consequences of being clever.
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You can't see the semantic wood for the syntactic trees.
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It has long been my personal view that the separation of practical and theoretical work is artificial and injurious. Much of the practical work done in computing, both in software and in hardware design, is unsound and clumsy because the people who do it have not any clear understanding of the fundamental design principles of their work. Most of the abstract mathematical and theoretical work is sterile because it has no point of contact with real computing.
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It i impossible to foresee the consequences of being clever, so you try to avoid it whenever you can.
-- Christopher Strachey
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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I'm all alone. There has been no man in my life for several months now and although it would be nice to have a boyfriend, I can't just settle for anybody. The fact is I'm choosy, but mainly about a man's character. He has to be interesting, funny and clever. I don't even mind if he's not very good-looking.
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Yet, isn't it strange, isn't it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and at the same time we can be totally convinced that he is! How clever the human mind is, that it can accept two contradictory things as 'facts.' Yes, I know that in this case one 'fact' was untrue. But the human mind can KNOW something is untrue and still accept it as a 'fact,' and act on it as if it were true.
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There's a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody. There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea. Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don't work creatively for me.
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Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.
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Sometimes the good fight feels impossible, but I for one, am NOT giving up.
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Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.
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Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.
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For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced.
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There are consequences if you act militarily, and there's big consequences if you don't act.
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