Category: Quotations
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Error prevention
For all systems, we must, as computer professionals, protect users from their own errors, intercept all detectable errors, and give informative warnings when we believe the user might have made an error. The “she made and error and must take responsibility” defense is too simple. We need systems that work in collaboration with the user…
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Movies
The trouble with movies as a business is that it’s an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it’s a business.Charlton Heston
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Learning
Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.Abigail Adams
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Problem
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.Bertrand Russell
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The old same place
The reason lightning doesn’t strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn’t there the second time.Willie Tyler
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More taxes
Like mothers, taxes are often misunderstood, but seldom forgotten.Lord Bramwell, English judge