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

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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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Analysis Complutense Identity Logic Measure Program
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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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 picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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