"The main activity of programming is not the origination of new independent programs, but in the integration, modification, and explanation of existing ones."

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Source : "Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering". Book by Derek Partridge, "Beyond Programming Languages", 1991.

Terry Winograd

#Independent Quotes #Program Quotes #Modification Quotes

“It's not rebels that make trouble, but trouble that makes rebels.”
“We forget that the accumulation of knowledge and the holding of convictions must finally result in the application of that knowledge and those convictions to life itself.”

Source : Jane Addams, Charlene Haddock Seigfried (2002). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.33, University of Illinois Press
“Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is: You can't beat Somebody with Nobody.”
“How silly people were to eat. They thought they needed food for energy, but they didn't. Energy came from will, from self-control.”
“On the one hand, the reality is dire, on the other, reality is always false, it is a mask covering what is coming up underneath.”

Source : Interview with Brecken Hancock, cwila.com.
“All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is therefore not at all a desirable quality in a chief of state.”
“A beautiful and chaste woman is the perfect workmanship of God, and the true glory of angels, the rare miracle of earth, and the sole wonder of the world.”
“Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas.”

Source : 1930 'The Composer in the Machine Age'.

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