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The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language.


Donald Knuth


#good #i #i am #important #important thing

I don't think the Republicans would appreciate the comparison, but they're exactly like the Labor Party in England in the 1970s. They're letting their extremists take them straight down. The same thing is going to happen - they had to disappear for a while and when they reinvented themselves they did it with moderates, they did it with Tony Blair.


Evan Thomas


#blair #comparison #did #disappear #down

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.


Pete Townshend


#hearing #helped #i #invent #makes

As far as I'm concerned, "whom" is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.


Calvin Trillin


#butler #concerned #everyone #far #i

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.


Raoul Vaneigem


#arguing #dancing #drinking #holding #inventing

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.


Giorgio Vasari


#express #forming #genius #hands #idea

I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.


Larry Wall


#bad idea #given #i #i think #idea

In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it as something that exists independently of him; the invention then becomes the basis of his world view and actions.


Paul Watzlawick


#actions #basis #becomes #considers #exists

Anyone wishing to communicate with Americans should do so by e-mail, which has been specially invented for the purpose, involving neither physical proximity nor speech.


Auberon Waugh


#been #communicate #e-mail #invented #involving

In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.


A. N. Wilson


#century #class #cotton #created #frame