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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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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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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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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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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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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 computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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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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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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