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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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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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