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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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You can cube it if you don't like squaring it.
— John Hopcroft
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Nov. 30, 1979
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You have seen more norms than you want to.
— Frank Luk
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Nov. 19, 1979
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Be brave, take the complement of the language.
— Juris Hartmanis
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Nov. 16, 1979
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Functional programming is not NewSpeak. It is possible to utter ugly things.
— John Williams
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Nov. 15, 1979
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COBOL and APL - one language I have never learned, the other which I refused to learn for the fifth time.
— Juris Hartmanis
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Nov. 14, 1979
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Give me just a few seconds of ambiguity.
— Juris Hartmanis
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Nov. 14, 1979
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Watch a man squirm.
— Juris Hartmanis,
About himself, getting mixed up in a proof
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Nov. 14, 1979
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Now the amusing claim, I'll make several, ...
— Juris Hartmanis
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Nov. 14, 1979
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Even my chalk refuses to write this.
— Juris Hartmanis
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Nov. 14, 1979
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Assume you talk Algol-68 for all I care.
— Juris Hartmanis
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Nov. 12, 1979
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