All posts by Bill Cupp

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And then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match. -Bill Bryson-

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Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. (attributed to Martin Luther, who actually said “I sit here and drink my good Wittenberg Beer, and the Kingdom of the God comes all by itself.”)

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No matter how long I live, no matter how many more different jobs I may have, I have already been given the highest reward I’ll ever receive, the privilege and the responsibility of serving very proudly in the United States Navy. -Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, USN-

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If you happen to be in a certain 2 percent of the population, you have these mental qualities that resonate well with computer, and you naturally gravitate to computer science. It’s just a way of thinking that distinguishes us. Eventually, I learned that I was a computer scientist. -Donald Knuth-