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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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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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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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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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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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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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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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Any noun can be verbed.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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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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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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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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