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The shortest program I ever expended significant intellectual energy on occupied 116 bits on the Bendix G-15. It was a variant of the "four-word memory clear" routine.
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
Insight often trumps calculation.
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The A.M Turing Award is the closest thing computer science and information technology have to a Nobel Prize. To my great pleasure, this year the award is going to Chuck Thacker, who designed or strongly influenced many of the machines I used during a very productive part of my career (Maxc, Alto, Dolphin, Dorado, Firefly).Although Chuck has called himself "a humble purveyor of cycles," the machines and software he designed have made substantial differences in how we compute today.
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It's rather hard to visualize the magnitude of the transfer of wealth that is taking place.
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Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
Charles Babbage
Jim Horning
Born:
August 24, 1942
Died:
January 18, 2013
(aged 70)
Bio:
James Jay "Jim" Horning was an American computer scientist and ACM Fellow.
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