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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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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.

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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.

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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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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.

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Optimization hinders evolution.

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It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.

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You think you KNOW when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.

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

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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.

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Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?

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

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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

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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 LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.

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In English every word can be verbed.

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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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Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

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

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Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

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