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

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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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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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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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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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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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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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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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