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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.

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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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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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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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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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