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

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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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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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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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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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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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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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Banality soothes our nerves.
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