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• But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Design, Contemplation, Active

  "Program Development by Stepwise Refinement". Communications of the ACM, Vol. 14, No. 4, sunnyday.mit.edu. April 1971.

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• Reliable and transparent programs are usually not in the interest of the designer.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Designer, Interest, Transparent

  "A Digital Contrarian Retires" by Beat Gerber, www.modulaware.com. March 1999.

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• People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.

  Donald Knuth

  Writing, Should Have, Ideas

  "MMIX 2009 a RISC computer for the third millennium". www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu.

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• A program designed for inputs from people is usually stressed beyond breaking point by computer-generated inputs.

  Dennis Ritchie

  People, Point Break, Stressed

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• Ive been involved with Carnegie Hall for the last 13 years, and Chairman for the last six. I feel really good about what weve done growing our educational programs there, building a board that has made Carnegie Hall really a world-class institution.

  Sanford I. Weill

  Educational, Years, Class

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• A fascinating, insightful, and new treatment from the perspective of an intimately involved former Iranian senior official on Iran's nuclear program and responses to it. For those familiar with the details, there is much new information about the Iran side, its ideas, strategies, disputes, and aims. U.S. experts will have some key questions but will learn much from this extraordinary book.

  Thomas R. Pickering

  Senior, Book, Keys

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• What was most important to me at the Olympics was going out there and performing my best. When I messed up the first jump combination, which was my big move, it hit me that I messed up the program of my life.

  Debi Thomas

  Motivational, Moving, Athlete

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• The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial (20-50 percent) chance of introducing another. So the whole process is two steps forward and one step back.

  Fred Brooks

  Two, Maintenance, Fundamentals

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• We will be producing supersonic planes which will go far, far faster than Concordes. New York to Tokyo could be less than an hour. You could be traveling at 19,000 miles an hour orbitally.

  Richard Branson

  New York, Space, Tokyo

  "Richard Branson Wants To Build A Plane That Can Go From New York To Tokyo In 'Less Than An Hour'" by Paul Szoldra, www.businessinsider.com. May 6, 2014.

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• I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.

  Terence McKenna

  Inspirational, Life, Believe

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• Seen from the United States or Europe, Irans nuclear program often causes most concern, but from the perspective of countries in the Asia-Pacific region, the North Korean program is equally worrying.

  Yukiya Amano

  Country, Iran, Europe

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• Don't let the politicians chip away at the New Deal and the Great Society programs like Social Security and Medicare, that puts a floor beyond which the elderly, the sick, the powerless do not starve or lack for medicine or shelter.

  Helen Thomas

  Medicine, Elderly, Sick

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• It boggles my mind that the same people who cry ‘foul’ about rationing an instant later argue to reduce health care benefits for the needy, to defund crucial programs of care and prevention, and to shift thousands of dollars of annual costs to people – elders, the poor, the disabled – who are least able to bear them.

  Donald Berwick

  People, Mind, Dollars

  Donald M. Berwick (2013). “Promising Care: How We Can Rescue Health Care by Improving It”, p.213, John Wiley & Sons

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• You can holler, protest, march, picket and demonstrate, but somebody must be able to sit in on the strategy conferences and plot a course. There must be strategies, the researchers, the professionals to carry out the program. That's our role.

  Whitney M. Young

  Plot, Roles, Able

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• The main activity of programming is not the origination of new independent programs, but in the integration, modification, and explanation of existing ones.

  Terry Winograd

  Independent, Modification, Integration

  "Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering". Book by Derek Partridge, "Beyond Programming Languages", 1991.

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• Real style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis.

  Frank Auerbach

  Real, Style, Crisis

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• In our society, we move people out of government. It's all operated by machines, meaning – not the people, just the products: the farming, the agriculture, the production – it's all machine-designed and programming. But it does not program or design people. People are free to live whatever lifestyle they want to. If they hurt other people, they're helped – they’re not put in prisons

  Jacque Fresco

  Hurt, Moving, Government

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• The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Reading, Fit, Newspapers

  "The enduring American press: texts of talks given by a panel of distinguished journalists and scholars at a symposium marking the 200th anniversary of the Hartford Courant, Hartford, Connecticut". Book by The Hartford Courant, 1964.

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• For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work.

  Gay Talese

  Writing, College, Example

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.themorningnews.org. July 6, 2006.

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• I did not mind the public criticism. That sort of thing has not changed any program I thought was good.

  Branch Rickey

  Mind, Criticism, Changed

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• I'm the kind of developer who likes to throw lightning rods around. To make a great program there's got to be at least one person at the center who is breathing life into it. In a ferocious way.

  Andy Hertzfeld

  Breathing, Way, Likes

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• Everybody in America is going to have to sacrifice to help us rebuild the Gulf Coast. Every government program, every individual, we are all going to have to sacrifice

  Tom Coburn

  Sacrifice, Government, America

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• Social Security is an extremely complicated program.

  John Thune

  Complicated, Social, Security

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• Consider the cost when Christians ignore Jesus commands to sell their possessions and give to the poor and instead choose to spend their resources on better comforts, larger homes, nicer cars, and more stuff.  Consider the cost when these Christians gather in churches and choose to spend millions of dollars on nice buildings to drive up to, cushioned chairs to sit in, and endless programs to enjoy for themselves.  Consider the cost for the starving multitudes who sit outside the gate of contemporary Christian affluence.

  David Platt

  Christian, Jesus, Nice

  David Platt (2010). “Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream”, p.20, Multnomah

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• I think the danger right now is that without effective inspections, without effective monitoring, Iraq can in a very short period of time measured in months, reconstitute chemical and biological weapons, long-range ballistic missiles to deliver these weapons, and even certain aspects of their nuclear weaponization program.

  Scott Ritter

  Thinking, Iraq, Long

  "Even if Iraq managed to hide these weapons, what they are now hiding is harmless goo". Interview with William Rivers Pitt, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2002.

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