"Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do."

-- Donald Knuth

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“A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal.”
“Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 148-49, Annales, XXX. 9, 1922.
“But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.”
“Everybody must have a fantasy.”
“I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch.”
“Take these chances Place them in a box until a quieter time Lights down, you up and die”
“With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating.”
“It is strange how few people make more than a casual cult of enjoying Nature. And yet the earth is actually and literally the mother of us all. One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.”

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