"If there is ever a science of programming language design, it will probably consist largely of matching languages to the design methods they support."

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Source : "The Paradigms of Programming", 1978 Turing Award Lecture, Communications of the ACM 22 (8), August 1979: pp. 455 - 460,

Robert W. Floyd

#Support Quotes #Design Quotes #Matching Quotes

“The passion has never left me. I live as two people - myself, Dan Fante, and Bruno Dante or Mickey Di Salvo, or whoever I say I am in one of my books. I can tap that Bruno character any time I need to. He lives inside me like a quiet, simmering pool of magma. Years ago I stopped feeding him with booze and he was kind enough to stop trying to kill me. That's our truce.”
“I feel like I want to keep moving toward idiosyncracy. Personal, personal, personal.”
“The disaster... is what escapes the very possibility of experienceâ€”it is the limit of writing. This must be repeated: the disaster de-scribes.”

Source : Maurice Blanchot (2015). “The Writing of the Disaster”, p.16, U of Nebraska Press
“he could transform the barest incident into a thing of curve and contour.”
“There is hardly any other sphere in which prejudice and superstition of the most horrific kind have been retained so long as in that of women, and just as it must have been an inexpressable relief for humanity when it shook off the burden of religious prejudice and superstition, I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open before them.”
“I got older - 16, 17 - I was like, "I want to do my own thing." I wasn't seeing eye to eye with my parents. It wasn't what they wanted for me.”
“Writing is not primarily escape, but use.”
“I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.”

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