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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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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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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 it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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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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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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