"The ALGOL compiler was probably one of the nicest pieces of code to come out at that time. I spent hours trying to fix and change the compiler. Working with it so closely affected the way I think about programming and had a profound influence on my style."

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Source : "Programmers at Work". Book by Gary Kildall, 1986.

Gary Kildall

#Thinking Quotes #Profound Quotes #Style Quotes

“If the president is going to use so much language of theology and the Bible, then let's use that language for a serious discussion about the war in Iraq. And that was never done.”
“One possibility for difficulties innovating is that most people really donÃ•t care about innovation.”
“The education of youth should be watched with the most scrupulous attention. [I]t is much easier to introduce and establish an effectual system ... than to correct by penal statutes the ill effects of a bad system. ... The education of youth ... lays the foundations on which both law and gospel rest for success.”
“I really want to be a rock star.”
“Used to be all I'd want to learn was wisdom, trust and truth, now all I really want to learn is Forgiveness for you”
“There are different types of readers. People draw lines at which three things intersect: the character, the author, and the reader.”

Source : Interview with Ratik Asokan, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.
“I've got what my ma had, macular degeneration, which you get when you get old.”
“Prayer's a very tricky business.”

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