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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.

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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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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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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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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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“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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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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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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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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