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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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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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When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Build Down Everything Except First Time Up
I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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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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In English every word can be verbed.
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The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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