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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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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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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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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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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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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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