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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Against Children Education Go Grain Modern Program Teach
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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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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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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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 English every word can be verbed.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Fermat Last Next Program Prove Theorem Today Verge
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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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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