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.
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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.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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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.
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Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.
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People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them.
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For your information, I would like to ask a question.
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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.
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Without a functioning hippocampus, names, dates, and other information falls straight through the mind like a sieve.
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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.
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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.
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Incredible that liberals aren't more concerned about the monopoly of information in South Dakota.
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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.
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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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Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.
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Words that add no new information or aren't repeated for emphasis are just padding. A sentence may carry three or five or eight of them, each one as unnoticeable as an extra two ounces on your hips but collectively adding up to a large burden of fat.
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With a standard editorial cartoon, you're taking tons of information and synthesizing it down to a single bite - a single moment in time. With animated editorial cartoons, it's more storytelling.
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I don't plan to return. I have a lot of unresolved things to do.
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Collecting at its best is very far from mere acquisitiveness; it may become one of the most humanistic of occupations, seeking to illustrate by the assembling of significant reliques, the march of the human spirit in its quest for beauty.
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Bands don't last. Bands don't last forever - it's a rarity when they do.
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I have been drunk now for over two weeks.
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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.
