"There is one very good reason to learn programming, but it has nothing to do with preparing for high-tech careers or with making sure one is computer literate in order to avoid being cynically manipulated by the computers of the future. The real value of learning to program can only be understood if we look at learning to program as an exercise of the intellect, as a kind of modern-day Latin that we learn to sharpen our minds."

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Source : Roger C. Schank, Peter G. Childers (1984). “The cognitive computer: on language, learning, and artificial intelligence”, Addison-Wesley

Roger Schank

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“Too often when we're buying or building a house we do not consider each room. We are carried away by one charming feature and are blind to details that will give us trouble later on.”
“I love the sounds and the power of pounding water, whether it is the waves or a waterfall.”

Source : "The trees were a deeper green than I imagined, and so tall" by Mike May, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2003.
“Throughout my career, nervousness and stage-fright have never left me before playing. And each of the thousands of concerts I have played at, I feel as bad as I did the very first time.”
“Getting angry doesn't solve anything.”
“If there had been no fear of failure, neither would there be any joy in success.”
“Everything begins only to end. The moment you were born you began to die. That's how it is with everything.”

Source : Janne Teller, Martin Aitken (2012). “Nothing”, p.8, Simon and Schuster
“The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.”

Source : Mary Ritter Beard, Ann J. Lane (1977). “Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard”, p.185, Feminist Press at CUNY
“The contours of the coming disaster expanded to include the deaths of all present.”

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