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

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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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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 began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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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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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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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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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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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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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Absorb Change Language Manage Program Progress Some Withstand
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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