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

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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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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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