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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

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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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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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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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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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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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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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