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author | dwmalone <dwmalone@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-10-12 09:16:23 +0000 |
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committer | dwmalone <dwmalone@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-10-12 09:16:23 +0000 |
commit | 9ec2a39d6ff83c348147b283c74da308aadd4e2a (patch) | |
tree | 31099405663e07bae9500bbb7c21199c93496ee0 | |
parent | fe59073f8dcfe61d8b048e7e4751131e39b353e6 (diff) | |
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Remove some duplicated Dijkstra quotes and add a new one.
Approved by: jkh
-rw-r--r-- | games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 | 18 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 index e8a5fc4..be2fb42 100644 --- a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 +++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 @@ -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. % +Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about +telescopes. + -- Edsger W. Dijkstra +% Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance -- Jim Horning @@ -17235,12 +17239,6 @@ inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 17, Number 5 % -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 -% [FORTRAN] will persist for some time -- probably for at least the next decade. -- T. Cheatham @@ -35883,10 +35881,6 @@ pixel, n: % P-K4 % -PL/1, "the fatal disease", belongs more -to the problem set than to the solution set. - -- E.W. Dijkstra -% 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 % -The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of -whether submarines can swim. - -- Edsger W. Dijkstra -% The questions remain the same. The answers are eternally variable. % |