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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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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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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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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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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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