"Yes, I share your concern: how to program well -though a teachable topic- is hardly taught. The situation is similar to that in mathematics, where the explicit curriculum is confined to mathematical results; how to do mathematics is something the student must absorb by osmosis, so to speak. One reason for preferring symbol-manipulating, calculating arguments is that their design is much better teachable than the design of verbal/pictorial arguments. Large-scale introduction of courses on such calculational methodology, however, would encounter unsurmoutable political problems."

-- Edsger Dijkstra

#Learning Quotes #Osmosis Quotes #Design Quotes

“Nevertheless, life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either.”

Source : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1964). “Best Ghost Stories of J. S. LeFanu”, p.298, Courier Corporation
“[There] are cases where there is no dishonesty involved but where people are tricked into false results by a lack of understanding about what human beings can do to themselves in the way of being led astray by subjective effects, wishful thinking or threshold interactions. These are examples of pathological science. These are things that attracted a great deal of attention. Usually hundreds of papers have been published upon them. Sometimes they have lasted for fifteen or twenty years and then they gradually die away.”
“A cigarette is the only consumer product which when used as directed kills its consumer.”

Source : "Penalising Smokers to Help Us All Breathe Easy" by Rita Panahi, www.heraldsun.com.au. June 30, 2013.
“Art is a way of showing the outside world what your inside world is like.”
“Most people know that forests are the lungs of our planet, literally playing a critical role in every breath we take. And that they're also home to incredible animals like the orangutan and elephant, which will go extinct if we keep cutting down their forests.”

Source : "My Plans This Valentine’s Day Weekend" by Chris Noth, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2013.
“And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the tree In the spring, Let them smile, as I do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling.”
“He was never without misery, and never without hope.”
“I'm right-handed, and the police report said I was jerking off with my left hand. That would have been the end of the case right there, proof it couldn't have been me.”

Source : "Paul Reubens clears the air on his '91 arrest". Playboy Interview, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 13, 2010.

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