Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
ALAN PERLISIf you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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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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Optimization hinders evolution.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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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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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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