"The use of the high level language made each programmer a factor of 5 to 10 more productive in a coding sense and more concerned with the semantics than the syntax of modules."

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Source : "A Managerial View of the Multics System Development". Talk at the Conference on Research Directions in Software Technology, Providence, Rhode Island, www.multicians.org. October 1977.

Fernando J. Corbato

#Syntax Quotes #Use Quotes #Levels Quotes

“It's true that things are beautiful when they work. Art is function.”

Source : "Empire of Dreams". Book by Giannina Braschi, 1994.
“I learned that people everywhere are basically the same and have similar goals that we do. They want health and happiness and the opportunity to provide for their families.”
“The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.”
“Love is the only doorway from the prison of ourselves.”
“There's no diploma in the world that declares you as an artistâ€”it's not like becoming a doctor. You can declare yourself an artist and then figure out how to be an artist.”
“I am attracted to generic or 'industrial' colours; paper bag brown, file cabinet gray, industrial green, that kind of thing.”
“Problems are rarely as bad as we think-or rather, they are precisely as bad as we think.”

Source : Ryan Holiday (2014). “The Obstacle is the Way: The Ancient Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage”, p.68, Profile Books
“Action is what separates the do-ers from the dreamers.”

Source : FaceBook post by Lennox Lewis from Aug 18, 2012

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