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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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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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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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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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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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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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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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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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