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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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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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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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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 can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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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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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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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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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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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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