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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.

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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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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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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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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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Optimization hinders evolution.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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