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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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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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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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