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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.

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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.

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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.

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

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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

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

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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

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

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

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Any noun can be verbed.

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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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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

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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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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.

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

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