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

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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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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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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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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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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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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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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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