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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.

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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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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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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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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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Any noun can be verbed.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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