C programmers never die. They are just cast into void. - Alan Perlis

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There has been a struggle to reclaim the African self. That struggle has been on the part of a minority of dedicated African-Americans who never gave up our African identity at no time during our stay here.

Alan Perlis

C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.

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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.

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Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?

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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.

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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.

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If everything was perfect, it would always be a person-first conversation, but whenever I have the opportunity, I lead with my personality. If they're looking and seeing the disability first or the chair first, I know that I have the ability to change that.

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Madison Grant

We are interested in stifling the sale of this book. We believe that this can be best accomplished by refusing to be stampeded into giving it publicity. . . The less discussion there is concerning it the more sales resistance will be created. We therefore appeal to you to refrain from comment on this book. . . It is our conviction that a general compliance with this request will sound the warning to other publishing houses against engaging in this type of venture. (Signed) Richard E. Gutstadt, Director.

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John Henrik Clarke

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Sue Grafton

Sometimes the hardest part of my job is the incessant reminder of the fact we're all trying so assiduously to ignore: we are here temporarily. Life is only ours on loan.

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I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old.

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