Optimization hinders evolution.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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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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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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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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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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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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In English every word can be verbed.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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