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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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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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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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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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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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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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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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