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Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty is…

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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.

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