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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.

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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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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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“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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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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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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