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My goal in life is to not get into Upson's Familiar Quotations.
— Rick Schlichting
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Feb. 8, 1980
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PL/I is a disaster, right?
— Alan Demers
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Feb. 6, 1980
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If none of the faculty show up, this talk is going to be about Stellar Conquest.
— Scott Johnson
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Jan. 31, 1980
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I don't really care about the asymptotic running time of the algorithm; what I care about is how many blips it takes.
— Scott Johnson
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Jan. 31, 1980
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We want to lift ourselves out of the primitive recursive muck.
— Bob Constable
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Jan. 30, 1980
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This wealth of knowledge will get us confused.
— Bob Constable
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Jan. 28, 1980
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I think right linear.
— Alan Demers
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Jan. 23, 1980
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You don't solve NP-complete problems in your compiler.
— Alan Demers
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Jan. 21, 1980
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The major problem with many articles is not that they are wrong, but that they are ugly.
— Edsger W. Dijkstra
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Jan. 15, 1980
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It's good to write a program occasionally ... as long as you don't run them.
— Edsger W. Dijkstra
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Jan. 15, 1980
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Dijkstra: The Hopcroft-Tarjan algorithm on planarity - was that ever executed?
Hopcroft: Yes, it was.
Dijkstra: Was that necessary?
Hopcroft: Yes, to get the bugs out of the algorithm.
— Edsger W. Dijkstra
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Jan. 15, 1980
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Let's warm up with deadlock.
— Fred Schneider
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Dec. 7, 1979
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