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

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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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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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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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