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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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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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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 is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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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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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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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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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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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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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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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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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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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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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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