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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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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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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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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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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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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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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 software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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