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

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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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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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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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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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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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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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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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