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- By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality.
- People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs…
- ...methods are more important than facts. The educational value of a problem given to a student depends mostly on how often the thought processes that…
- ...One of the most important lessons, perhaps, is the fact that SOFTWARE IS HARD. From now on I shall have significantly greater respect for every…
- When certain concepts of TeX are introduced informally, general rules will be stated; afterwards you will find that the rules aren't strictly true. In general,…
- When you write a program, think of it primarily as a work of literature. You're trying to write something that human beings are going to…
- It is much more rewarding to do more with less.
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