"Professor Wilkes is best known as the builder and designer of the EDSAC, the first computer with an internally stored program. Built in 1949, the EDSAC used a mercury delay line memory. He is also known as the author, with Wheeler and Gill, of a volume on "Preparation of Programs for Electronic Digital Computers" in 1951, in which program libraries were effectively introduced."

-- Maurice Wilkes

#Memories Quotes #Preparation Quotes #Library Quotes

“How is it that there are not many who are led by sermons to forsake open sin? Do you know what I think? That is because preachers have too much worldly wisdom.”
“The nuances and organic characteristics of a character become second nature if I'm doing my job well.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.”
“We continually want to unmask our heroes as if there were more to be learned from their nakedness than from their choice of clothing.”
“The first things I remember drawing were battles - big sheets of paper covered in terrible scenes of carnage - though when you looked closely, there were little jokes and speech bubbles and odd things going on in the background.”

Source : "A life in books: Anthony Browne". Interview with Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2009.
“Please tell me we don't grow up and turn into the adults that drive us crazy.”
“Just don't let go or you may drown.”
“On stage is the only place where I really know what I'm doing.”

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