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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.

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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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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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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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Any noun can be verbed.
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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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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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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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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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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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