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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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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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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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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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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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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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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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