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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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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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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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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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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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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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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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