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One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.

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In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own.

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I am a programmer.

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You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.

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I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.

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So maybe I can go back to being a Gardeners' World addict again.

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In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.

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When in doubt, use brute force.

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A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect.

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Grant, if we edited Fortran, I assume that you'd put a column thing in there.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: February 4th, 1943

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