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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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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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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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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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Dealing with failure is easy.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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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 toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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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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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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