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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.

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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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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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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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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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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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