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C is a razor-sharp tool, with which one can create an elegant and efficient program or a bloody mess.

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Brian Kernighan
Canadian - Scientist
Born: January 1, 1942

Poetry isn't an efficient tool for preserving experience, any more than it's an efficient mode of communication, but who says that it should be efficient?

James Arthur

When you're just able to distill it down to the idea and the feeling that a character is experiencing in a scene, it can become very, very razor sharp and really clean and really efficient and simple. And sometimes it takes twenty-five years to learn how to be simple.

Kevin Spacey

What is the central core of the subject [computer science]? What is it that distinguishes it from the separate subjects with which it is related? What is the linking thread which gathers these disparate branches into a single discipline. My answer to these questions is simple -it is the art of programming a computer. It is the art of designing efficient and elegant methods of getting a computer to solve problems, theoretical or practical, small or large, simple or complex. It is the art of translating this design into an effective and accurate computer program.

Tony Hoare

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.

Bernard Baruch

Believe this," he whispered, and kissed her with the sharp, sleek kiss, the silver kiss, so swift and true, and razor sharp, and her warmth was flowing into him.

Annette Curtis Klause

Do not underestimate the human being, who sometimes appears so simple. Even with sight as sharp as an eagle, a mind as sharp as a razor, senses more powerful than gods, hearing that can catch the music and the lamentations of life, your knowledge of humanity will never be total.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Me, I want to bloody kick this moronic bloody world in the bloody teeth over and over till it bloody understands that not hurting people is ten bloody thousand times more bloody important than being right.

David Mitchell

I can be kind of razor sharp in my disapproval.

Jane Lynch

Anytime you create art, you create a mess. I mean, 'Hamlet' is a mess!

George C. Wolfe

Architects must have a razor-sharp sense of individuality.

Richard Neutra

You don't need a specialty lame (French for 'blade') to make professional-level bread at home, but it certainly helps in creating those telltale slash marks. You need a truly razor-sharp edge to make a clean cut; even a sharp paring knife will drag as it moves through the wet dough.

Claire Saffitz

Fischer Chess play was always razor-sharp, rational and brilliant. One of the best ever

Dave Regis

He who dares to speak with a razor sharp tongue, shall in end, bare the final scar.

Robert M. Hensel

To the degree it is efficient, a spaceship is elegant and beautiful.

Vanna Bonta

Rhetoric can be razor sharp, and just as one needs to take some comments seriously, others should not be.

Alexander Stubb

I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action.

Malcolm X

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