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Discover Inspiring Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes

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  1. I’m not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.
  2. My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.
  3. I’m not going to disappear.
  4. I’m still my parent’s child, I’m still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.
  5. In athletics there’s always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you’re not cheating. I think that’s just a quirk of human nature.
  6. It’s hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.
  7. Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.
  8. My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
  9. I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.
  10. I saw Islam as the correct way to live, and I chose to try to live that way.
  11. Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
  12. I wanted to play baseball!
  13. I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
  14. I think the NBA will certainly survive without Michael Jordan.
  15. I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals.
  16. I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
  17. I think someone should explain to the child that it’s OK to make mistakes. That’s how we learn. When we compete, we make mistakes.
  18. I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.
  19. I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.
  20. My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn’t have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.
  21. I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.
  22. Your mind is what makes everything else work.
  23. I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.
  24. I hope to be involved in a successful movie script.
  25. I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
  26. I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
  27. I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available.
  28. A team will always appreciate a great individual if he’s willing to sacrifice for the group.
  29. As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.
  30. As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit.
  31. Black people don’t have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.
  32. Center is a very tough position to play.
  33. Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.
  34. Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.
  35. Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.
  36. I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.
  37. You can’t win unless you learn how to lose.
  38. I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA.
  39. One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
  40. I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.
  41. You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go… Don’t ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.
  42. You can’t win if you don’t play as a unit.
  43. When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.
  44. When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
  45. When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That’s a terrible burden.
  46. The transition was difficult. It’s hard to stop something that you’ve enjoyed and that has been very rewarding.
  47. The game has basically not changed since I ended my career.
  48. The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.
  49. I didn’t really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.
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Dive into Paula Abdul’s Inspiring Quotes

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  1. There are many talented people.
  2. Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I’ve been writing songs for other artists.
  3. If I decide to tour, I definitely would come to Washington, D.C. We’ll see.
  4. If they’re singing about heartbreak, they’ve lived it.
  5. Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.
  6. When you go to meetings or auditions and you fail to prepare, prepare to fail. It is simple but true.
  7. I think it would be great if there were no age limit.
  8. Virgin Records will probably release their own package sometime next year.
  9. There is love there. And then there’s times when I can’t even stomach Simon. You don’t have to sit next to him. That’s all I have to say.
  10. Keep the faith, don’t lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct.
  11. The producers felt that 24 would be good for the audience, to really get to know who these 12 and 12 are.
  12. The more auditions you go on, the more you will learn not to take it personally.
  13. The cool part of being an entertainer is getting the opportunity to get your feet wet in all areas.
  14. Simon would not want to audition in front of Simon.
  15. Simon drives me crazy. We are still arguing.
  16. I’m working toward a CD that will have all of you dancing like crazy.
  17. My job, I think, is the hardest job out of all the judges because I am the only one that is a performer.
  18. When people expect me to go right, I’ll go left. I’m unpredictable.
  19. Thousands of kids and parents come up to us and say, How do we get better as a singer?
  20. I am in Toronto, shooting a movie for NBC.
  21. I’m happily single.
  22. You need these experiences. Just know that sometimes, the director has a specific look in mind.
  23. I think a duet with Janet is a great idea.
  24. I signed on with Disney to star and choreograph an original film.
  25. I have been working up until recently with Neil Simon, who has been adapting the character to me.
  26. I can’t wait to be back on the dance floor. I feel really good about it.
  27. For all of those willing to help me start a family, I am flattered. I will let you know when I need your help.
  28. Find fitness with fun dancing. It is fun and makes you forget about the dreaded exercise.
  29. Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with.
  30. I will never forget my humble beginnings as a Laker Girl. It was probably one of the most fun jobs I ever had.
  31. Can you imagine Simon as a kid? His imaginary friends probably never wanted to play with him.
  32. Any types of auditions will be posted in trade magazines.
  33. American Idol has taken over my whole life.
  34. America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I could, and I had no formal training.
  35. All you can do is the best you can do.
  36. I welcome him like I welcome cold sores. He’s from England, he’s angry and he’s got Mad Power Disease.
  37. Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on.
  38. I got a call to come in and meet Fox, and the rest is history.
  39. I’m grateful this ordeal is over, and I’m so looking forward to getting back to the job I love.
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Embrace Nature’s Wisdom: Edward Abbey Quotes

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  1. Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
  2. Our ‘neoconservatives’ are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell.
  3. One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain’t nothin’ can beat teamwork.
  4. Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.
  5. Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
  6. Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,’ I says, ‘but don’t insult me poor bleedin’ country.
  7. For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
  8. May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
  9. Grown men do not need leaders.
  10. Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
  11. If the end does not justify the means – what can?
  12. A drink a day keeps the shrink away.
  13. A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
  14. Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
  15. The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other – instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
  16. Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
  17. You can’t study the darkness by flooding it with light.
  18. Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
  19. When a man’s best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
  20. Abolition of a woman’s right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.
  21. There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.
  22. The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages – as if the savages weren’t dangerous enough already.
  23. The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.
  24. That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.
  25. Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.
  26. Society is like a stew. If you don’t stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.
  27. Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.
  28. Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.
  29. What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.
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Unlock Wisdom: Hank Aaron Quotes

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  1. Didn’t come up here to read. Came up here to hit.
  2. You can only milk a cow so long, then you’re left holding the pail.
  3. The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
  4. The pitcher has got only a ball. I’ve got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.
  5. On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.
  6. My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
  7. My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
  8. My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
  9. My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
  10. My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
  11. I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn’t throw it past me, none of them.
  12. I don’t see pitches down the middle anymore – not even in batting practice.
  13. Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is eighty percent of being a successful hitter. The other twenty percent is just execution.
  14. I don’t feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.
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Discover Inspiring Willie Aames Quotes

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  1. My wife bought an extra life insurance policy on me.
  2. I don’t think you need to go looking for the enemy. He’s going to look for you.
  3. I get scared to death when I see people who say they’ve found Jesus Christ, and they’re out there, and I wonder, who’s teaching them? Who’s mentoring them?
  4. I had never really pictured myself working in children’s ministries. I always figured I would be more comfortable with maybe teens or adult ministries.
  5. I realized there was very little in Hollywood I would ever feel comfortable doing. If I kept one foot there and one foot in my Christianity, I would never grow.
  6. I remember thinking, That’s what I need – and that hope was in Jesus Christ.
  7. I spent six years in Bible study because I needed to get grounded. People really need to spend time in the Bible getting to know the God they claim to love.
  8. I suppose what’s unique about our presentation is the amount of Scripture that kids get.
  9. I tell kids that people will let them down and people will hurt them. But Jesus Christ will never let them down and never hurt them.
  10. I want kids to understand that strength doesn’t come from what goes on around you. It comes from inside you, and that comes from Jesus Christ.
  11. I’m cleaning toilets for $30 a day, because I needed that $30, and people are pointing at me, saying, Look at the big movie star. Look where he is now. I just said, I’m where God put me.
  12. God gives me the children’s ministry heart and patience. This is what He wants. It’s awesome. I don’t know where He’s gonna take it-but God is building this thing.
  13. It’s easy to be led astray when you’re so broken. People take advantage of you.
  14. My pastor said, Just because you were a celebrity doesn’t mean you’re supposed to be a celebrity now.
  15. God continues to work miracles in my life.
  16. There are things God does for me daily, and it throws me into brain lock, because I know in my heart I don’t deserve that kind of grace. I don’t deserve that break.
  17. They did interviews with my wife and daughter-they were genuinely in fear of me having a heart attack, working 20 hours a day, eating fast food.
  18. This is an exact replica of my chest.
  19. This is not what I would have chosen. But I have a heart to be obedient.
  20. This show has been a major revitalization of my family life and personal life. It gave my family an avenue to speak to me honestly.
  21. We produce programs that honor God and impact our world.
  22. We’re seeing how the videos translate to the live shows and how the technology is really reaching kids.
  23. We’ve been called, and He has blessed.
  24. We’ve both been married before and our previous experiences made us fearful of commitment.
  25. When you’re in that scene, you really wonder if this is all you’re ever going to be. You know how vile and filthy you are inside.
  26. If there’s comfort involved, it’s probably not for me.
  27. Pray for your mate. Ask God to soften your heart and show you ways to be a better spouse.
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Discover Inspiring Quotes of Bill Gates

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  1. Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
  2. It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
  3. Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.
  4. Life is not fair; get used to it.
  5. Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren’t so exciting.
  6. Microsoft is not about greed. It’s about innovation and fairness.
  7. Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it’s about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it’s less than one ton. It’s an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.
  8. People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines… There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.
  9. Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers – organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative – if we don’t solve these security problems, then people will hold back.
  10. Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
  11. Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.
  12. The U.S. couldn’t even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They’ll be killing each other again in less than a year. I’m sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.
  13. The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
  14. Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
  15. The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
  16. Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
  17. People everywhere love Windows.
  18. I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
  19. In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.
  20. Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
  21. I think it’s fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we’ve ever created. They’re tools of communication, they’re tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
  22. I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
  23. I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you’re trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you’re giving it away.
  24. DOS is ugly and interferes with users’ experience.
  25. Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.
  26. At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top – I’m afraid that’s not quite right.
  27. Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
  28. If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?
  29. As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
  30. If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.
  31. If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn’t have tenure.
  32. If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG.
  33. I’m sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn’t on our radar screen. We were just making great software.
  34. I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.
  35. 640K ought to be enough for anybody.
  36. Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we’re going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles.
  37. This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.
  38. Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
  39. We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.
  40. We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.
  41. We’ve got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.
  42. When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.
  43. When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.
  44. Whether it’s Google or Apple or free software, we’ve got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.
  45. Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
  46. There are people who don’t like capitalism, and people who don’t like PCs. But there’s no-one who likes the PC who doesn’t like Microsoft.
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Top Quotes of Charles De Gaulle

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  1. One does not arrest Voltaire.
  2. The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.
  3. The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
  4. The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
  5. Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
  6. Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
  7. Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
  8. The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
  9. Only peril can bring the French together. One can’t impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
  10. Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
  11. Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
  12. Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
  13. No nation has friends only interests.
  14. Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
  15. The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.
  16. The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
  17. To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
  18. Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last.
  19. We are not here to laugh.
  20. When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
  21. When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
  22. You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
  23. You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
  24. You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
  25. You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
  26. Old age is a shipwreck.
  27. No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
  28. There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
  29. Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
  30. One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
  31. Never relinquish the initiative.
  32. A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
  33. As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.
  34. Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
  35. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
  36. Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
  37. Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.
  38. Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
  39. For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
  40. France cannot be France without greatness.
  41. France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
  42. Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
  43. Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
  44. In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
  45. China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.
  46. How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
  47. In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
  48. A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
  49. In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
  50. It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
  51. I was France.
  52. I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
  53. I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 – I didn’t have television then.
  54. I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
  55. I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
  56. I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
  57. I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro.
  58. I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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Henry A. Wallace Quotes: Wisdom & Inspiration!

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The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny. If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and ‘with malice toward none and charity for all’ go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a…

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Larry Wall’s Best Quotes: Inspirational Wisdom!

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The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris. Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it’s still coming to computer science. Programmers can be lazy. Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. Some…

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