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“In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. ”
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“Schools teach you to imitate. If you don�t imitate what the teacher wants you get a bad grade. Here, in college, it was more sophisticated, of course; you were supposed to imitate the teacher in such a way as to convince the teacher you were not imitating, but taking the essence of the instruction and going ahead with it on your own.”
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“Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.”
― Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
― Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
“What�s new?” is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless parade of trivia and fashion, the silt of tomorrow.”
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“You look at where you�re going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you�ve been and a pattern seems to emerge. And if you project forward from that pattern, then sometimes you can come up with something.”
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