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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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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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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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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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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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