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"If the programmer can simulate a construct faster then the compiler can implement the construct itself, then the compiler writer has blown it badly." »Guy L. Steele Jr., Tartan Laboratories
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"The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work." »John Von Neumann
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"You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do." »Norman Douglas
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"In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a nonworld." »Peter Drucker
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"Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops." »Kurt Vonnegut
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"It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though perhaps a meretricious, effect." »Frederick Douglas
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"It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve." »Edgar Allan Poe
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"I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive epochs is like omitting Hamlet from the play which is named after him. . . But it is certainly analogous to cutting out the part of Ophelia. This simile is singularly exact. For Ophelia is quite essential to the play, she is very charming-- and a little mad." »Alfred North Whitehead
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"Those who construct loyalty programs through frequent-flyer points and the like, are merely trying to trap the customer. Loyalty must come naturally, not via points and schemes. If your customers are loyal to you as a result of such programs, then surely you realize that they are not loyal. Such schemes are tangible, and tangible things are susceptible to the law of annihilation. Anything that you do, can be matched by your competitor." »Jonar Nader
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