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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.

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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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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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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can 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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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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