diff --git a/common/modules/quotations.org b/common/modules/quotations.org index 2813a0e..e9523aa 100644 --- a/common/modules/quotations.org +++ b/common/modules/quotations.org @@ -1,40 +1,49 @@ #+COLUMNS: %40ITEM %10BEAMER_env(Env) %9BEAMER_envargs(Env Args) %10BEAMER_act(Act) %4BEAMER_col(Col) %10BEAMER_extra(Extra) %8BEAMER_opt(Opt) * relevant quotes for Software Heritage ** Thomas Jefferson *** long, original, from http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/presidents/thomas-jefferson/letters-of-thomas-jefferson/jefl88.php To Ebenezer Hazard Philadelphia, February 18, 1791 The Letters of Thomas Jefferson SIR, I return you the two volumes of records, with thanks for the opportunity of looking into them. They are curious monuments of the infancy of our country. I learn with great satisfaction that you are about committing to the press the valuable historical and State papers you have been so long collecting. Time and accident are committing daily havoc on the originals deposited in our public offices. The late war has done the work of centuries in this business. The last cannot be recovered, but let us save what remains; not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident. This being the tendency of your undertaking, be assured there is no one who wishes it more success than, Sir, your most obedient and most humble servant. Thomas Jefferson *** short “Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.” - Ebenezer Hazard Philadelphia, February 18, 1791 + Thomas Jefferson Philadelphia, February 18, 1791 + +*** French translation + + Ce qui est perdu ne peut pas etre restitue, mais il faut sauver ce qui reste: + non pas en l'enfermant dans des caveau obscures qui le cachent a la vue et + en empechent l'usage, le condemnant a une inutilite eternelle; mais en en + faisant tellement de copies qu'aucun accident ne pourra l'atteindre. + Thomas Jefferson Philadelphie, 18 Fevrier, 1791 + ** Donald Knuth Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs: Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do. Donald Knuth. "Literate Programming (1984)" in Literate Programming. CSLI, 1992, pg. 99. ** Harold Abelson Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. Harold Abelson, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs ** Roberto Di Cosmo Source code is special: it's executable knowledge that is meant to be human readable, by design. An all time new in human history.