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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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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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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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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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In English every word can be verbed.
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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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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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