"Programming is the art of writing essays in crystal clear prose and making them executable"

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Source : Per Brinch Hansen (1996). “The search for simplicity: essays in parallel programming”, IEEE

Per Brinch Hansen

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“You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.”
“The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.”
“Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself?”

Source : Song: Sit Down Young Stranger
“A companion's words of persuasion are effective.”
“The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.”
“If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I've left behind me.”
“There is no problem with global warming. It stopped in 1998. The last two years of global cooling have erased nearly 30 years of temperature increase.”

Source : "Climate Change You Can Believe In" by Mark Steyn, www.nationalreview.com. July 25, 2009.
“The reason educational spending in Texas is so low is because you don't have a state tax there, and that's why Texas is big growth because you don't tax people to death.”

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