I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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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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Optimization hinders evolution.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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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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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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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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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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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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