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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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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 English every word can be verbed.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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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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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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