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“For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless, and then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.”
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“There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again.”
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“The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris”
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“A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history-with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila”
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“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
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