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• Optimization hinders evolution.
• When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.
• The computing field is always in need of new cliches.
• It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
• There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
• FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
• Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
• In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".

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