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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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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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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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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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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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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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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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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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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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It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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