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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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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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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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