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• In this sense, we should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.

  — Donald Knuth

• Two seemingly incompatible conceptions can each represent an aspect of the truth … They may serve in turn to represent the facts without ever entering into direct conflict.

  — Louis de Broglie

• There's a good reason why nobody studies history. It just teaches you too much.

  — Noam Chomsky

• Global collaboration is something that Wiki mastered in a small way and here we can master it in a big way.

  — Ward Cunningham

• Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.

  — Jean Piaget

• We have become a people unable to comprehend the technology we invent.

  — Association of American Colleges

• When you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover.

  — John Kenneth Galbraith

• I suspect that teaching the history of our subject is less frequent in our institutions than it was. We are getting short-sighted both in looking forward and in looking backward, to our detriment.

  — Brian Campbell Vickery

• Any teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be!

  — Arthur C. Clarke

• En lugar de humanizar la técnica el moderno prefiere tecnificar al hombre.

  — Nicolás Gómez Dávila

• No classification is complete and perfect for all purposes.

  — George Klir

• The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting true data.

  — Charles Babbage

• There are no heroes, just heroic decisions

  — Edward Snowden

• There's often more than one correct thing. There's often more than one right thing. There's often more than one obvious thing.

  — Larry Wall

• Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use sed." Now they have two problems.

  — Jamie Zawinski

• By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality.

  — Donald Knuth

• It is with Isaac Newton that the modern dream of a final theory really begins.

  — Gerald Weinberg

• Gambas does not try to be compatible with Visual Basic, and will never be. I'm convinced that its syntax and internals are far better than the one's of its proprietary cousin.

  — Benoît Minisini

• The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity. It's our attempt as humans to build an understanding of the universe, the world around us. It's our attempt to influence things, the universe internal to ourselves and external to us.

  — Mae Jemison

• Every smart person wants to be corrected, not admired.

  — Marvin Minsky