"The required techniques of effective reasoning are pretty formal, but as long as programming is done by people that don't master them, the software crisis will remain with us and will be considered an incurable disease. And you know what incurable diseases do: they invite the quacks and charlatans in, who in this case take the form of Software Engineering gurus."

-- Edsger Dijkstra

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“Believe that you can run farther or faster. Believe that you're young enough, old enough, strong enough, and so on to accomplish everything you want to do. Don't let worn-out beliefs stop you from moving beyond yourself.”

Source : "Running for the PR" by Dylan Armajani, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2012.
“Well, we are not doing that film actually. At least I am not at the moment, but we are making an effort to get it done; I don't know whether we'll get the financing for it. The old story we had it, it fell out of place and this and that.”
“We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.”
“Why should you ask blood be spilled for a cause that is not in the interest of the American people?”
“In my day, people didn't do nude scenes. I mean they didn't exist.”
“I get a lot of abuse on Twitter. It's mostly homophobic, but what can you do? I just either ignore it or laugh.”
“The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.”

Source : Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.233, Harvard University Press
“We are doing earlier and earlier to children what we shouldn't do later.”

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