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

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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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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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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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