Assembly Quotes - Page 15

• C is not clean – the language has many gotchas and traps, and although its semantics are simple in some sense, it is not any cleaner than the assembly-language design it is based on.

  Erik Naggum

  Simple, Design, Language

  Re: teaching and learning with LISP/Scheme (Usenet article), groups.google.com. June 20, 2000.

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• If the constitution is not changed, then we will try to bring it down either before the referendum through the law by filing a suit in international or local courts, if we can, challenging the legitimacy of this constitution and the National Assembly.

  Saleh al-Mutlaq

  Law, Challenges, Trying

  "Iraqi Sunnis Rally Against Constitution". Al-Jazeera Interview, www.foxnews.com. August 29, 2005.

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• Henry Ford, in a sense, was the first Keynesian. He paid his assembly workers high wages so they could afford to buy his cars.

  Robert Kuttner

  Car, Wages, Firsts

  Robert Kuttner (1987). “The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice”, p.169, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• This is the assembly of life that took a billion years to evolve. It has eaten the storms - folded them into its genes - and created the world that created us. It holds the world steady.

  E. O. Wilson

  Years, Storm, World

  "The Diversity of Life". Book by Edward O. Wilson, 1992.

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