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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.

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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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