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Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it? ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

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Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

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It is evidently necessary to generate and test candidates for solutions in some systematic manner. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

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Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy is another fallacy. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

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My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

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