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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.

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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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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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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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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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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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