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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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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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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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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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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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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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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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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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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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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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