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

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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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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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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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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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