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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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