Alexander Stepanov Quotes

When writing code, it’s often the case that you end up computing a value that the calling function doesn’t currently need. Later, however, this value may be important when the code is called in a different situation. In this situation, you should obey the law of useful return: A procedure should return all the potentially useful information it computed.

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• The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

  

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• We often feel a twinge of guilt over our own fascination with presidential candidates' wives - as if we are secretly reading the 'Star' for our campaign information instead of the policy journals.

  

  Naomi Wolf
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• I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
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• Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.

  

  Karen Kain
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• We were hunter-gatherers of information, and we moved from that to becoming farmers and cultivators of information.

  

  J.P. Rangaswami
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• Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
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• The Internet is programmable information. The blockchain is programmable scarcity.

  

  Balaji Srinivasan
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• We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.

  

  Nate Silver
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• Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.

  

  Larry Page
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• People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them.

  

  Nate Silver
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• For your information, I would like to ask a question.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
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• Despite all the drawbacks, the Internet provides a wide array of information - and some of it is being watched pretty carefully by the pros.

  

  Gary Weiss
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• Without a functioning hippocampus, names, dates, and other information falls straight through the mind like a sieve.

  

  Sam Kean
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• Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
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• Those involved in the program are interested in how to use photography, videos, the Internet, film, and anything related to communications and transmission of information in the most up-to-date modern ways.

  

  Major Owens
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• Incredible that liberals aren't more concerned about the monopoly of information in South Dakota.

  

  Laura Ingraham
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• Serving up ads based on behavioral targeting can itself be an invasion of privacy, especially when the information used is personal.

  

  Adam Cohen
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• If you're not open, you're not transparent, you're still holding on to vaults of information, you're not going to build that trust.

  

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• It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.

  

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• Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given.

  

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• The pilots I did test for, I was the only black actor testing against white actors for parts that were written white.

  

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• Satan is the ruler of humanity (John 14:30). The result is that lost mankind hates and rejects Jesus Christ:... And, since unconverted mankind hates Christ, it also hates those who love Him and follow Him.

  

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• When writing code, it’s often the case that you end up computing a value that the calling function doesn’t currently need. Later, however, this value may be important when the code is called in a different situation. In this situation, you should obey the law of useful return: A procedure should return all the potentially useful information it computed.

  

  Alexander Stepanov
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