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

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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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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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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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