"Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored."

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Source : Bjarne Stroustrup (1991). “C Plus Plus Programming Language”, Addison-Wesley / Helix Books

Bjarne Stroustrup

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“Don't make the body do what the spirit does best, and don't put a big load on the spirit that the body could easily carry.”
“History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power has destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs to us all. We must not let it happen again.”

Source : John D. Barrow (1992). “Pi in the sky: counting, thinking, and being”, Oxford University Press, USA
“...the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, they must "feel" something ... or they couldn't possibly hate. Therefore, there's some way in which I can get to them.”
“Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.”
“Dancing is an important function of music, but so is crying.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The defenders of godism are now shrieking against the growing number of Atheists, and there is a call to the religious world to enter upon a crusade against Atheism. The stage in which heresy meant little more than all exchange of one god for another has passed. It has become a case of acceptance or rejection of the idea of God, and the growth is with those who reject.”
“I have wasted my hours.”
“In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour... If criticism becomes a habit, it will destroy the moral energy of the life and paralyze the spiritual force... Whenever you are in a critical temper, it is impossible to enter into communion with God. Criticism makes you hard and vindictive and cruel, and leaves you with the flattering unction that you are a superior person. It is impossible to develop the characteristics of a saint and maintain a critical attitude.”

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