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

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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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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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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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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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Any noun can be verbed.
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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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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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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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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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Banality soothes our nerves.
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