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“The central role in the fight against terrorism is with national authorities.”
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“In such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me well when I eventually entered the work force.”
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“We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves...The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, 'You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.' The human spirit is indomitable.”
Source : Sir Roger Bannister (2011). “The First Four Minutes”, p.142, The History Press
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“God bless the homicidal maniacs. They make life worthwhile.”
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“Buying a home wouldn't make much sense if house prices were likely to decline further; no one wants to catch a falling knife.”
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“Von Neumann languages do not have useful properties for reasoning about programs. Axiomatic and denotational semantics are precise tools for describing and understanding conventional programs, but they only talk about them and cannot alter their ungainly properties. Unlike von Neumann languages, the language of ordinary algebra is suitable both for stating its laws and for transforming an equation into its solution, all within the "language.”
Source : "Can Programming Be Liberated From the von Neumann Style?". John Backus' 1977 Turing Award lecture, published in "Communications of the ACM", Volume 21, No. 8 (pp. 639-640), August 1978.
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“My voice sounded like one of the guinea fowl that screeched in our trees as it pooped, but I never let that stop me.”
Source : William Kamkwamba, Bryan Mealer (2015). “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Young Readers Edition”, p.15, Penguin
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“And Zach was taking his jacket off and draping it around my shoulders, which (according to Liz, who double checked with Macey) is the single-sexiest thing a guy can do.”
