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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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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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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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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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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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Any noun can be verbed.
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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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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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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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