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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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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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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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Banality Nerve Our
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Become Level Low Machine Understand Program
A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Build Down Everything Except First Time Up
You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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Certain Even More Program Sure Teach Write
When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Against Children Education Go Grain Modern Program Teach
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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