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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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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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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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What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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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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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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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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