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• Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
• Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you…
• For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of…
• A critical factor in its success was that the X developers were willing to give the sources away for free in accordance…
• Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.
• Why the hell hasn't wxPython become the standard GUI for Python yet?
• In the U.S., blacks are 12% of the population but commit 50% of violent crimes; can anyone honestly think this is unconnected…
• Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around.
• Lisp was far more powerful and flexible than any other language of its day; in fact, it is still a better design…
• Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse)
• The easiest programs to use are those which demand the least new learning from the user
• Complexity control is the central problem of writing software in the real world

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