"Much of my work has come from being lazy. I didn't like writing programs, and so, when I was working on the IBM 701 (an early computer), writing programs for computing missile trajectories, I started work on a programming system to make it easier to write programs."

-- John Backus

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“If I don't have to act, I'd rather not. I'd rather not act cold. I'd rather actually be cold. That's my weird way of acting. If the door is supposed to be locked, I'd rather have it locked. But of course, most of the time, we have to act, and that's okay, too.”

Source : "Lea Thompson Talks THIN ICE, SWITCHED AT BIRTH, the BACK TO THE FUTURE Broadway Musical, RED DAWN Remake and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 15, 2012.
“No circumstance would prevent over-population so effectually as a general raising of the customary standard of comfort among the poorer classes. If they had accustomed themselves to a more comfortable style of living, they would use every effort not again to sink below it.”
“Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.”
“I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.”
“On the day I started college in 1979, no woman had ever been on the United States Supreme Court or served as the Speaker of the House. None had been an astronaut or the solo anchor of a network evening news broadcast. Not one had been president of an Ivy League college or run a serious campaign for president.”
“Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant.”
“Moose had no friends that year. A lot of the time a moose would feel tired and lean against other moose. Only there wouldn't be moose there and the moose would fall.”
“I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of lifes wisdom.”

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