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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.

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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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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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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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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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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows 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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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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