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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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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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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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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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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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Compassion Computer Graduate Instist Professor Science Student
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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