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

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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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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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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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Dealing with failure is easy.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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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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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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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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