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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.

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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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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 English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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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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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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