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

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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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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 year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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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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