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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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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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Bloom Computer Flower Fortean Grow Hardy Occasionally Weed
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Affect Language Program Think Worth
In English every word can be verbed.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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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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Alternation Important Life Lovely Matter More Movement Picture Seek View
Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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