“I was walking in the city the other day. I saw a syringe lying on the sidewalk. I stuck the needle in my forearm. That was a classy neighborhood, so the use of the syringe seemed justified.”

— Xavier Leroy

Sources <br class="br">Source: Xavier Leroy (2005-07-23), Post to the Caml mailing list, 2008-02-20 http://caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/caml-list/2005/07/0d3297c63e4b92fd956ea53d7b9ff255.en.html,

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French computer scientistand programmer 1968

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