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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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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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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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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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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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Dealing with failure is easy.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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