"Regardless of whether one is dealing with assembly language or compiler language, the number of debugged lines of source code per day is about the same!"

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Source : "PL/I as a Tool for System Programming". Datamation magazine, 15 (5), May 1969.

Fernando J. Corbato

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“I suppose my approach to religion is like my approach to music - I take what I want and leave the rest.”
“I remember being in a comic shop with my son, with my ten year-old son and he put his hand over my eyes. He was embarrassed about me seeing the comics at Forbidden Planet.”

Source : Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.
“You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.”
“We took nothing from anybody. We gave a great deal to the world. The only thing keeping us alive is our brilliance. The only thing that keeps our brilliance alive is our patents.”
“God and I have built an immense fire together. We keep each other happy and warm.”
“I have never lied, â€œ Mr. Barris counters, standing as well. â€œI do not share what I am not at liberty to say. I gave my word and I intend to keep it but I have never lied to you. You never even asked me, you assumed I knew nothing.”
“Fame is rot; daughters are the thing.”
“For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were. You'll detect slow and subtle shifts going on all around you, more importantly shifts in you. Worse, you'll realize it's always been shifting, like a shimmer of sorts, a vast shimmer, only dark like a room. But you won't understand why or how.”

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