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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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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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Advance Crumble End Justify Often Structure Survive Technique
Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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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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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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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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Dealing with failure is easy.
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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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Any noun can be verbed.
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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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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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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 programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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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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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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