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

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

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One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code.

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There are no projects per se in the Computing Sciences Research Center.

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One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't.

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I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems.

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It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.

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SCCS is the source-code motel -- your code checks in but it never checks out.

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

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There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data.

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