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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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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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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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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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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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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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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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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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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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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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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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