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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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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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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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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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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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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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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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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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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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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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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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