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“City Hall’s justification for the new law? It’s a response to the E2 disaster of 2003—which, if you follow the press coverage, could have been prevented if many of the laws already in place were enforced. Who would enforce this new law?”
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“I’m deeply ambivalent about XML. I’m reminded of this Winston Churchill quote: ‘It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.’ XML is like democracy. Sometimes it even works….”
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“One day they are calling journalists to write favorably about their prominent political patrons and the next minute they are sitting at the table with journalists and indistinguishable from the journalists.”
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“Her idea is that ways of thinking and problem-solving that involve algorithms and data structures and levels of abstraction and refactoring aren’t just for computer scientists, they’re really for everybody.”
