Remove some duplicated Dijkstra quotes and add a new one.

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David Malone 2000-10-12 09:16:23 +00:00
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@ -13399,6 +13399,10 @@ COMPUTER SCIENCE:
5) Tautology harnessed in the service of Man at the speed of light.
6) The Post-Turing decline in formal systems theory.
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Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about
telescopes.
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra
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Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view
adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance
-- Jim Horning
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too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 17, Number 5
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FORTRAN, "the infantile disorder", by now nearly 20 years old, is
hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have
in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive
to use.
-- E.W. Dijkstra
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[FORTRAN] will persist for some time --
probably for at least the next decade.
-- T. Cheatham
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P-K4
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PL/1, "the fatal disease", belongs more
to the problem set than to the solution set.
-- E.W. Dijkstra
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Plagiarize, plagiarize,
Let no man's work evade your eyes,
Remember why the good Lord made your eyes,
@ -44791,10 +44785,6 @@ remain each in their own position.
-- Letter to Sir Theodore Martin, 29 May 1870, from
Queen Victoria
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The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of
whether submarines can swim.
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra
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The questions remain the same.
The answers are eternally variable.
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