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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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Dealing with failure is easy.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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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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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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