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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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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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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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