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Black and White

2017-12-24 · 2,786 views · license: CC BY-NC 2.0

Black and White — pen and ink drawing by Daniel Ari Friedman. "Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to measure progress. Some cathedrals took a century t
Black and White — pen and ink drawing

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"Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to measure progress. Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you imagine the grandeur and scope of a program that would take as long?" – SIGPLAN, Association for Computing Machinery, 'Epigrams in Programming', September 1982

"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?'...I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." – Charles Babbage (1864).

Meno: "I feel, somehow, that I like what you are saying." Socrates: "And I, Meno, like what I am saying…

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