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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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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Adequately Describe Hardly Picture Set Ten Thousand Word
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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