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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Chance Earlier Program Specification Versa Vice
Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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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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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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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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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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