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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.

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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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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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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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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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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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