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Suggest Revision: A list is only as strong as its weakest link.
 
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Suggest Revision: An algorithm must be seen to be believed.
 
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Suggest Revision: Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
 
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Suggest Revision: God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue.
 
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Suggest Revision: I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.
 
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Suggest Revision: If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
 
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Suggest Revision: In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field.
 
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Suggest Revision: Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.
 
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Suggest Revision: People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones.
 
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Suggest Revision: Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
 
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