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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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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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