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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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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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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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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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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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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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