"Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California."

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"The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called "life", expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing."

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"The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings."

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"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."

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"The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics."

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"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense."

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"Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it."

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"Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability."

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"Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians."

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"Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change."

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"APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums."

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"I think a duet with Janet is a great idea."

Paula Abdul, American Musician

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"I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no idea about."

Elliott Abrams, American Lawyer

Idea,

"I had no idea I could make it this far. And the fact that they told me I made it this far and that America is going to vote for me, I freaked out."

Casey Abrams, American Musician

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"When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression."

Casey Affleck, American Actor

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"I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of."

Tatyana Ali, American Actress

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"The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new plague - sometimes for the better, but often for the worse, as when, in fear, they cast their ulcerated patients out into the streets."

Peter Lewis Allen, American Author

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"I think that curiosity happened on these reviews where I was just a guest of the reviewer, because it introduced me to new cuisines and to the idea of cooking as a mechanism for studying other cultures and understanding other parts of the world."

Ted Allen, American Entertainer

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"I have no idea what I'm doin'. I've never seen me."

Mose Allison, American Musician

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"Perhaps my information hurt the Soviet Union more than it helped. I have no idea. It was not something I ever discussed with the KGB officers that I was dealing with."

Aldrich Ames, American Criminal

Idea, Hurt, Information

"I keep very weird hours. I never know when I'm going to get an idea."

Sergio Aragones, Spanish Cartoonist

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