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Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated. ↗

— 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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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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Programming is usually taught by examples. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

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Usually its users discover sooner or later that their program does not deliver all the desired results, or worse, that the results requested were not the ones really needed. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

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Such is life and life is such and after all it isn't much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse. ↗

— Norman Wisdom

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John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

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Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the slaves, that did not suit the uncompromising views of people in places like Richmond. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

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In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

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As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together. ↗

— Edmund White

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