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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.

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One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.

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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

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

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

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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.

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

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

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