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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.

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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the 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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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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