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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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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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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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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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