A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
ALAN PERLISIf your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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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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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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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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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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