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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.

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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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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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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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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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