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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.

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The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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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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