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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.

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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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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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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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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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It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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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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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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