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thundara  ·  3368 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 11th Occasional Give Us a Quote from Your Recent Reading

    When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

-- Clarke's first law

Has come up a few times now in different places





thundara  ·  3368 days ago  ·  link  ·  

And JethroTulli, since it's temporally relevant:

    Computer programming ... is a bit like writing. It is used almost everywhere, it is something that you get better at with practice, but it isn’t necessarily a fit subject for study on its own.

-- Philip Greenspun

JethroTulli  ·  3368 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Perfectly relevant. Thanks.