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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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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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Optimization hinders evolution.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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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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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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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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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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