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

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Banality soothes our nerves.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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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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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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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 goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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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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