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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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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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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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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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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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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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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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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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