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#lang racket

(define email (foldl string-append "" '("me" "." "pm" "@" "ipnon")))

(define x (foldl string-append "" '("_ipnon" "/" "com" "." "x")))

(define zero "If you can imagine a society in which the computer-robot is the only menial, you can imagine anything.")

(define one "War is the best game and the worst life.")

(define two "For I know of nothing as profoundly exciting as to glimpse for the first time some new and basic truth.")

(define three "When I got to Cambridge, I was faced with the problem of looking at a question to which no one knew the answer—but I wasn’t willing to face it. When I left Cambridge, I didn’t know how to face it very well, but I understood that this was my job; this was the change that occurred that year.")

(define four "So here is an even more striking statistic: 0% of that first batch had a terrible experience. They had ups and downs, like every startup, but I don't think any would have traded it for a job in a cubicle. And that statistic is probably not an anomaly. Whatever our long-term success rate ends up being, I think the rate of people who wish they'd gotten a regular job will stay close to 0%.")

(define five "They asked me how well I understood theoretical physics. I said I had a theoretical degree in physics. They said welcome aboard.")

(define six "Always with you what cannot be done.")

(define seven "But whoever is acquainted with such a change in men, and can render a man humid and dry, hot and cold by regimen, could also cure this disease, if he recognizes the proper season for administering his remedies, without minding purifications, spells, and all other illiberal practices of a like kind.")

(define eight "松茸やかぶれた程は松の形")

(define nine "This black sprite is c

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1. The cruelty of teaching computing science (1988) (www.cs.utexas.edu)
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2. Dijkstra's Crisis: The End of Algol and Beginning of Software Engineering (2010) [pdf] (www.tomandmaria.com)
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