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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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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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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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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Attention Irrelevant Language Low Program Require
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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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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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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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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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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