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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.

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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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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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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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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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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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Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
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What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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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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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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