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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.

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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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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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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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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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Any noun can be verbed.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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