Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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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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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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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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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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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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