"There's a good part of Computer Science that's like magic. Unfortunately there's a bad part of Computer Science that's like religion."

-- Hal Abelson

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“I want to see that our older people still feel useful, and our younger people feel engaged in our wider society, and I want to feel that we can bond people from disparate backgrounds, ages and communities together in a greater project, which they get engaged in for the sake of others. Volunteering, in all sorts of ways, seems to me likely to be able to achieve some of that”
“Drink from the stars and toss your hat over the moon.”
“It is a strange feeling for a girl when first she finds the power put into her hand of influencing the destiny of another to happiness or misery. She is like a magician holding for the first time a fairy wand, not having yet had experience of its potency.”
“In a way, I was born twice. I was born in 1934 and again in 1955 when I came to Pittsburgh. I am thankful to say that I lived two lives.”

Source : "Roberto Clemente Day at Three Rivers Stadium". pgdigs.tumblr.com. July 25, 1970.
“I hate politics, hate deals, and deal-making, hate meeting with attorneys and agents.”
“I do so much revising as I go along; I wonder how I could write books if I hadn't grown up in the computer age. I think I'd be a very different writer. I find myself cutting and pasting, changing things around and deleting whole paragraphs constantly.”
“My father had a brilliant scholastic record in high school and was awarded a college scholarship. Unfortunately he had to turn it down so that he could continue to support his family.”
“All you need is to know what you want, and to want it badly enough so that it will stay in your thoughts.”

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