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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

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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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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?

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One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.

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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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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.

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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.

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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.

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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.

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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

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A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.

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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.

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One man's constant is another man's variable.

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

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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".

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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 language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.

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Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.

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If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.

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Optimization hinders evolution.

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