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An Interview with Brian Kernighan (InformIT)An Interview with Brian Kernighan (InformIT)Posted Oct 2, 2012 15:47 UTC (Tue) by dgm (subscriber, #49227)Parent article: An Interview with Brian Kernighan (InformIT)
"we seem to be spending more of our resources on high-priced arguments about trivial "inventions" than on creating new ones."
This is my suggestion for quote of the week. And maybe of the year.
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An Interview with Brian Kernighan (InformIT) Posted Oct 2, 2012 17:47 UTC (Tue) by nachtan (subscriber, #73227) [Link]
Agreed.
This quote too, is worth seeing again as QoD or QoY
"Governments have perhaps come a bit late to the party, but they too are eager to learn everything possible about their citizens. I fear that without some unlikely combination of restraint, law, and pushback by ordinary people, we are heading to a world that will make the invasions of Orwell's 1984 seem desirable by contrast."
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