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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.

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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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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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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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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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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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