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Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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