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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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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Become Level Low Machine Understand Program
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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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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Banality soothes our nerves.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Affect Fool Ignore Know Program Worth
Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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