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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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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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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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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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