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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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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder One Liner Optimization
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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Acquire Attention Critical Detail Devote Fun Make Organization Plan Self
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Complex Display Information Mind Only
Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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Anything Best Book Layman People Wonderland
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Fermat Last Next Program Prove Theorem Today Verge
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Conceptual Good Language Program Think Universe
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Build Down Everything Except First Time Up
Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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Awful Began Complain Course Customer Pay Seriously Shafted Start
Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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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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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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