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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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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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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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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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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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