Peter Landin quotes
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“This paper of yours is so lightly written that you must have sweated terribly.”
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“It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.”
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“My favorite travel pastime is writing music, either with my guitar or on my computer.”
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“The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.”
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“Science is to computer science as hydrodynamics is to plumbing.”
Source : Stan Kelly-Bootle (1995). “The Computer Contradictionary”, p.44, MIT Press
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