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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.


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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.



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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.



When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.

When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.



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It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.



In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.



There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.



A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.



Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.



If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.





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