"First, we want to establish the idea that a computer language is not just a way of getting a computer to perform operations but rather that it is a novel formal medium for expressing ideas about methodology. Thus, programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute."

-- Hal Abelson

#Ideas Quotes #People Quotes #Machines Quotes

“In many parts of the world, especially Pakistan and Afghanistan, terrorism, war and conflict stop children to go to their schools. We are really tired of these wars. Women and children are suffering.”
“There's only one thing that's impossible to beat... a man that doesn't give up.”
“Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.”
“Any revolutionary agitation exacts enormous sacrifices, not so much in terms of prison sentences and years of incarceration - which have been raining down by the hundreds of years annually - as in terms of the manifold personal sacrifices sustained by those who commit themselves to revolutionary agitation.”
“This is woman's great benevolence, that she will become a martyr for beauty, so that the world may have pleasure.”
“The Vietnam War was in full swing, the Air Force wanted me and I wanted out of Flint, so three years in the USA and that fourth one spent here in Vietnam really flipped my life around.”

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“You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.”
“I'll fight Lloyd Honeyghan for nothing if the price is right.”

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