"Eiffel borrows quite openly from several earlier programming languages and I am sure that if we had found a good language construct in C we would have used it as well."

-- Bertrand Meyer

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“It was a tradition to represent a dancer frozen in a chosen position, like a snapshot. I broke away from this tradition by superimposing postures, blending light and motion and scrambling the planes.”
“When any man accumulates more than he can earn with his own hands, he begins to enrich himself at the expense of the youth, the sweat, the blood, the joy of his fellow men.”
“Among women, guilt spreads with the rampant fury of bubonic plague. ... I used to feel guilty if the cat had matted fur.”
“If you desire to become a more generous person, don't wait for your income to change. Change your heart.”
“Fat is mainstream, which is why everyone has become complacent. What used to be considered pudgy before isn't even worthy of a comment today.”
“What a racially segregated system once taught the young black about living with his inferiority is now taught by a benevolent social welfare system. The difference was that in an earlier age a black parent could fight the competing influences.”

Source : Charles A. Murray (1984). “Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980”, p.188, Basic Books
“Most haystacks do not even have a needle.”
“If you want the world to pay for projects, you have to be able to display why you're worthy.”

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