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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
(Scientist)
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basic, exposure, mutilate, mutilated, practically, prior, programmer, programmers, programming, regeneration, students
«The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure, the journalist stands trembling on the shore in his beach robe. The journalist confines himself to the clean, gentlemanly work of exposing the grieves and shames of others.»
Author: Janet Malcolm
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«A very receptive state of mind...not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.»
«I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.»
Author: Igor Stravinsky
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assumptions, chiefly, composer, exposure, fount, founts, pursuits, throughout
«It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.»
«Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
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Adventure,
Security
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«Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
| Keywords:
bold, exposure, fearful, in the long run, long run, outright, safer, The Long Run
«The Canadians of those days, at least, possessed a roving spirit of adventure which carried them further, in exposure to hardship and danger, than ever the New England colonist went, and led them, though not to clear and colonize the wilderness, yet»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Adventure,
Country
| Keywords:
Canadians, colonist, colonists, colonize, colonized, exposure, New England, rove, Roves, roving, the Wilderness
«Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them»
«There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body»
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