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«It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.»
Author: Edsger Dijkstra
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Scientist)
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Keywords:
basic,
exposure,
mutilate,
mutilated,
practically,
prior,
programmer,
programmers,
programming,
regeneration,
students
«There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation»
Author: Herbert Spencer
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Philosopher)
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About:
Arguments,
Information,
Principles
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Keywords:
Against the man,
arguments,
bar,
barred,
barring,
contempt,
everlasting,
fail,
information,
investigation,
investigations,
principle,
prior,
proof
«Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society»
«Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.»
«I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.»
«Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed.»
«Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.»
«Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.»
«Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.»
«Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.»
Author: Woody Allen
(
Actor,
Author,
Film Director,
Screenwriter)
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Keywords:
administered,
administering,
administers,
capital,
capitals,
capital punishment,
crime,
Crime and Punishment,
effective,
measure,
preventive,
Preventives,
prior,
punishment