"Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones."

-- Alan Perlis

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“Canadians, do not vomit on me!”
“No scientific subject has ever aroused quite the same mixture of hopes and fears [as atomic energy].”
“Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility.”
“My dream was I was going to be an actor. Racism occurred to me. It dawned on me that I would not be an actor. It occurred to me that I was not white. It occurred to me that being what they call colored, being a Negro, was some kind of a disadvantage.”

Source : "Remembering Ruby Dee: 'Think Of Me And Feel Encouraged'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. June 13, 2014.
“I've been drawing authors and politicians for newspapers for many years. I try to read up on the person; in the case of authors, read one of their books. I watch interviews via YouTube and collect pictures via the Internet.”
“Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt, generated by intuition or by computer, by invention or by a system of coordinates, is not good design if it does not communicate.”

Source : "A designer's art". Book by Paul Rand, 1968.
“Faith is not only in the heart; it should be put into words.”
“funny how ready people are to believe that counseling, which even when voluntary takes years to modify garden-variety neuroses, can work wonders in months with resistant patients who hate each other.”

Source : Katha Pollitt (1995). “Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism”, Vintage

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