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Computer science is a restless infant and its progress depends as much on shifts in point of view as on the orderly development of our current concepts.

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Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.

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Both knowledge and wisdom extend man's reach. Knowledge led to computers, wisdom to chopsticks.

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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.

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Alan Perlis

Born: April 1, 1922
Died: February 7, 1990 (aged 67)
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