"If you don't know how compilers work, then you don't know how computers work."

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Steve Yegge

#Computer Quotes

“I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.”
“Itâ€™s been easier to convince people to hand over half their income, their children to war, and their freedoms in perpetuity - than to engage them in seriously considering how roads might function in the absence of taxation.”
“We do, in former chairman Lee Atwater's words, offer the party as a big tent, and therefore that message has to be clear. How we do that within the platform, the preamble to the platform or whatnot, that remains to be seen. But that message will have to be articulated with great clarity.”
“Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Intelligent Design is a remarkably uncreative theory that abandons the search for understanding at the very point where it is most needed. If Intelligent Design is really a science, then the burden is on its scientists to discover the mechanisms used by the Intelligent Designer. (80)”
“The modern spirit is a hesitant one. Spontaneity has given way to cautious legalisms, and the age of heroes has been superseded by a cult of specialization. We have no more giants; only obedient ants.”

Source : Roger Lowenstein (2013). “Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist”, p.177, Random House
“A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.”

Source : Patricia Neal, Richard DeNeut (1988). “As I am: an autobiography”, Simon & Schuster
“Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.”

Source : Meir Kahane (1973). “Meir Kahane--writings (5732-33): Selected Writings by Meir Kahane from the Year 5732-33 (1971-73).”

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