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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

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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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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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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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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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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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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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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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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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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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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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