"Typing is no substitute for thinking."

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Source : "Structured BASIC programming". Book by John G. Kemeny, p. 118, 1987.

Richard Hamming

#Thinking Quotes #Substitutes Quotes #Typing Quotes

“We can't exempt ourselves from the same moral calculus that we are willing to apply to others.”
“I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.”
“To the audience, it's like I'm changing the subject every five seconds, but to me, my show's almost like a 90-minute song that I know exactly. I wrote every note, and I know exactly where everything is.”
“Almost every cartoonist, when he's sitting down to draw a funny face, if you watch him closely, his mouth is gonna curl to the expression that he's drawing. But when I would write a story - I know it's going to sound almost ridiculous and infantile - I would, in a way, start living it.”
“I certainly have gotten caught up in the music business at various times in my life, mostly because you want to get along with whatever record company you're dealing with. I don't want to be flaky. I don't want to be some temperamental, hard-to-work-with musician.”
“People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental population problem facing the world today?" A flip answer would be, "The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!”

Source : Jared Diamond (2011). “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition”, p.457, Penguin
“If you can listen well, people will say you're a good conversationalist.”
“The IRS! They're like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!”

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