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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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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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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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Dealing with failure is easy.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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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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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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