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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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In English every word can be verbed.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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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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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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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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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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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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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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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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