#Wisdom Quotes #Witty Quotes #Humorous Quotes
“At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.”
“FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.”
Source : 1983 Turing Award Lecture, "Communications of the ACM" 27 (8), (pp. 761-763), August 1984.
“Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.”
Source : Thorstein Veblen (2016). “THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS: An Economic Study of American Institutions and a Social Critique of Conspicuous Consumption: Development of Institutions That Shape Society and Influence the Livelihood of Citizens: Based on Sociological & Economical Theories of Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Adam Smith and Herbert Spencer”, p.48, e-artnow
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Yuri Gagarin
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