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SCCS, the source motel! Programs check in and never check out! -- Ken Thompson
Programs should be written and polished until they acquire publication quality. -- Niklaus Wirth
Programs like WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) subsidize the exclusion of dads. -- Warren Farrell
Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute. -- Donald Knuth
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. -- Hal Abelson
Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen. -- Dick Armey
Programs to demonstrate Darwinian evolution are akin to a pinball machine. The steel ball bounces around differently every time but eventually falls down the little hole behind the flippers. -- Robert J. Marks II
Programs like food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and job retraining help Americans get back on their feet when they are down and out and laid off through no fault of their own. -- Hank Johnson
The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are known. Programs can't acquire bugs by sitting around with other buggy programs. -- Harlan Mills
When it comes to the video channels and the programs, the radio stations, the music is geared towards kids, and it's made by kids. -- Prince
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When donors visited the Black Panther Party, they came and saw our real programs, a real clinic, with real doctors and medics, giving service to people. -- Bobby Seale
If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of these programs. -- Richard Stallman
Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly. -- Bobby Scott
I was on the San Diego school board for 4 years, where I watched children successfully matriculate into elementary schools from Head Start programs from all around our city. -- Bob Filner
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other. -- J. C. Watts
Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide; they build self-confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents. -- Conrad Burns
Many Christians have so busied themselves with programs and activities that they no longer know how to be silent and meditate on God's word or recognize the mysteries that are in the Person of Christ. -- Ravi Zacharias
If you don't like the idea that most of the money spent on lottery tickets supports government programs, you should know that most of the earnings from mutual funds support investment advisors' and mutual fund managers' retirement. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Despite all the hype about local or green food, the single biggest impediment to wider adoption is not research, programs, organizations, or networking. It is the demonizing and criminalizing of virtually all indigenous and heritage-based food practices. -- Joel Salatin
True leaders don't invest in buildings. Jesus never built a building. They invest in people. Why? Because success without a successor is failure. So your legacy should not be in buildings, programs, or projects; your legacy must be in people. -- Myles Munroe
Our budget works to reduce and eliminate the risk of attacks at our ports, rails, in the skies, our food supply and roads by allowing for increases in many of the programs and agencies to help protect these important areas of commerce and travel. -- Jim Ryun
Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that goes into programs like Pell Grants, that purely and simply award funds to students who really cannot afford full tuition. -- Charles Vest
I love nature - it's probably my most favorite thing. I don't watch much telly, the telly hardly goes on, but the things I do watch are sort of nature programs, and something about the oceans and the amount of weird fish that's in there. -- Karl Pilkington
I am into nature and seeing whales. I went whale-watching, and I was really looking forward to that, but when you see it on TV and you see other programs do it, you're seeing close-ups of these massive creatures, and the music that's added gives you a certain feeling. -- Karl Pilkington
My father served 26 years in the Air Force as a pilot and a pioneer in our missile programs. I learned early about the sacrifices a family makes when a member is repeatedly deployed, and also the fulfillment that comes from serving our country. My brother, my son and I all became Marines. -- Jim Webb
I guarantee you that the people who watch 'Conan O'Brien' or who watch 'Entertainment Tonight' and probably a lot of these other programs have never heard of Operation Blessing. Maybe they have heard of UNICEF, and I'm sure they have heard of the Red Cross, but they haven't heard of this organization. -- John Tesh
Conservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatism is about empowering people to catch up, to give them the tools at their disposable that make it possible for them to access all the hope, all the promise, all the opportunity that America offers. And our programs to help them should reflect that. -- Marco Rubio
We're living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don't work in this new society and the more we try to stretch them to make them fit, the more we will be seen as running away from what is reality. -- Ann Richards
If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young people ill equipped to be productive citizens, we need to not only implement effective programs to prevent teen pregnancy, but we must also help those who have already given birth so that they become effective, nurturing, bonding parents. -- Jane Fonda
Especially girls, but any kids exposed to music programs and arts programs do much better on their tests. They have a better chance of going to college. They can focus better. You know, we're not just automatons learning how to work machines and do engineering and math and science. All of that's great, but you've got to build a whole person. -- Bonnie Raitt
I went whale-watching, and I was really looking forward to that, but when you see it on TV and you see other programs do it, you're seeing close-ups of these massive creatures, and the music that's added gives you a certain feeling. But in reality, you're stuck on a boat that's bobbing up and down, you feel sick, the whale isn't there on demand. -- Karl Pilkington
Principles without programs are platitudes. -- George Bernard Shaw
Everything is temporary. Well, except government programs. -- Brooke Bida
I write my programs primarily for myself. -- Bill Budge
The Asian airlines have the best wine programs. -- Alain Ducasse
Early admission programs tend to advantage the advantaged. -- Derek Bok
Our nation's anti-hunger programs need to be strengthened. -- Jose Serrano
I want to make the programs very strong. -- Donald Trump
The devil is real. He lives inside C programs. -- Philip Greenspun
Portability is for people who cannot write new programs -- Linus Torvalds
Once created, federal programs are nearly impossible to eliminate. -- Ron Paul
Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments. -- Irwin Redlener
We produce programs that honor God and impact our world. -- Willie Aames
Usually, environmental programs are not designed for a mainstream audience. -- Paul Watson
We need balanced programs, balanced priorities on the fiscal side -- Jason Furman
Local conservation programs can help our communities shape thoughtful growth. -- Will Rogers
There's nothing that can replace quality programs in a non-profit. -- Adam Braun
Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make. -- Douglas Crockford
I would like to see additional funding for entrepreneurial development programs. -- Steve Chabot
Mathematics is much less formally complete and precise than computer programs. -- William Thurston
Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes. -- John Mason Brown
The war on poverty programs help address the pain of poverty. -- Marco Rubio
I'd like to work on putting art programs back in schools. -- Chaka Khan
All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible. -- Paul Dickson
I'm against abstinence programs because I really consider "abstinence only" child abuse. -- Joycelyn Elders
I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage. -- Jim Talent
I never really had novel-writing instruction like people do in MFA programs. -- Jess Row
I'm not asking for more entitlement programs; I'm asking for more enterprise. -- Van Jones
Some of the federal programs to help homeowners were never fully implemented. -- Julianne Malveaux
Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface. -- Douglas McIlroy
Im a big fan of martial arts films, novels and radio programs. -- Wong Kar-wai
We need to make sure our government programs encourage work, not dependence. -- Marco Rubio
I don't welcome leaks. There's a reason why these programs are classified. -- Barack Obama
It has proved politically wiser to set goals than to start programs. -- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work. -- Gay Talese
For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work -- Gay Talese
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works. -- Alan Perlis
What I do in my book is let people know about these programs. -- Matthew Lesko
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution. -- Robert Sewell
Companies that support sports developmental programs in our communities should also be applauded. -- Mary Lou Retton
We have not yet concluded that needle-exchange programs do not encourage drug use. -- Donna Shalala
Reliable and transparent programs are usually not in the interest of the designer. -- Niklaus Wirth
It's amazing to me that they're cutting physical education programs in the school systems. -- Shannon Miller
It's amazing to me that they're cutting physical education programs in the school systems -- Shannon Miller
There are many programs specifically aimed at helping people in poverty start a business. -- Matthew Lesko
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant. -- Alan Perlis
I have always advocated for funding and programs that increase our productivity and competitiveness -- George Allen
I don't like a lot of social programs either because it makes you non-productive. -- Charles Evers
Labor looks different in the 21st century. And so should our job training programs. -- Leila Janah
There are thousands of grant programs and every program has different requirements and deadlines. -- Matthew Lesko
MFA programs are to the world of art what gentrification is to your neighborhood. -- Sarah Schulman
Money buys the most experienced teachers, less-crowded classrooms, high-quality teaching materials, and after-school programs. -- Robert Reich
I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different. -- Ken Thompson
Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs. -- Seth Lloyd
I am going to put money into education at the expense of other programs. -- Dalton McGuinty
Other than my foundation - mentoring programs - everything I do is for money. -- Steve Harvey
We should fund the armies of compassion, we should not discriminate against faith-based programs. -- George W. Bush
Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments. -- Mark Strand
Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work. -- Zach Wamp
Often in writing programs, articulation and clarity are more important than what you actually say. -- Etgar Keret
Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs. -- Bill Gates
Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs. -- Dana Rohrabacher
The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer. -- Russell Banks
Employee participation programs and employee ownership are important efforts to deal with powerlessness at work. -- Daniel Yankelovich
To label family planning and legal abortion programs "genocide" is male rhetoric, for male ears. -- Shirley Chisholm
There are thousands and thousands of free programs available for people of any income level. -- Matthew Lesko
Funding and maintaining programs from Head Start to Pell Grants must be a high priority. -- Ed Pastor
I can tell you about the education programs, because that's where I lived and worked. -- Bill Bennett
The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it. -- Dennis Ritchie
I wrote a lot. I was in programs for drawing when I was a kid. -- Boyd Holbrook
I always did workshops. I would be at theater camp, doing shows, or after-school programs. -- Ansel Elgort
The only time you can have maximum economic progress is when social programs don't exist. -- James Cook
We need to provide higher quality and innovative early childhood development programs all throughout Latin America. -- Shakira
Shelter Network's programs and services are a rainbow in the clouds for homeless children and adults. -- Maya Angelou
But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs. -- Niklaus Wirth
I'm training myself to go back to the way I used to record before electronic programs. -- Chaz Bundick
The easiest programs to use are those which demand the least new learning from the user -- Eric S. Raymond
I am an avid supporter of PETA and all animals as well as animal rights programs. -- Corey Feldman
There are great amateur bodies that have good programs right from the grassroots level to professionals. -- Karrie Webb
Modern programs must handle Unicode "?Python has excellent support for Unicode, and will keep getting better. -- Guido van Rossum
Similarly, another famous little quantum fluctuation that programs you is the exact configuration of your DNA. -- Seth Lloyd
The long and short of it is, we need more rigor in all kinds of programs. -- Margaret Spellings
When it comes to federal programs, even if states are discriminating, the federal government should not. -- Evan Wolfson
Medicaid and the Child Health Insurance Program are the two most important safety net programs for children. -- Irwin Redlener
Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we're seeing is the negative side of nuclear war. -- Barry Goldwater
Free enterprise has done more to reduce poverty than all the government programs dreamed up by Democrats. -- Ronald Reagan
Successful programs consist of people working hard, working together, while never worrying about who gets the credit. -- Don Meyer
Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody. -- Larry Elder

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