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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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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 good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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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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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the 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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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Hard Improve Problem Solve Word Wrong
“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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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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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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