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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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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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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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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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Dealing with failure is easy.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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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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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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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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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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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 are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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