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

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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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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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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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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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