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

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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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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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“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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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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Acquire Attention Critical Detail Devote Fun Make Organization Plan Self
In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every Program Long Rubble Run
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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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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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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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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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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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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