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

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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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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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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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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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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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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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