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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.

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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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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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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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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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