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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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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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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Every Raeder Himself Periodically
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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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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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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