Life is an incurable disease.
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To Dr. Scarborough; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).Abraham Cowley
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The required techniques of effective reasoning are pretty formal, but as long as programming is done by people that don't master them, the software crisis will remain with us and will be considered an incurable disease. And you know what incurable diseases do: they invite the quacks and charlatans in, who in this case take the form of Software Engineering gurus.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Beware an act of avarice; it is bad and incurable disease.
Ptahhotep
Man has one incurable disease: Ignorance. - Clark Dufour
Anonymous
The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy...
Georges Rouault
It's very healthy for a young girl to be deterred from promiscuity by fear of contracting a painful, incurable disease, or cervical cancer, or sterility, or the likelihood of giving birth to a dead, blind, or brain-damage [sic] baby even ten years later when she may be happily married.
Phyllis Schlafly
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