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A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.

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I suppose I should learn Lisp, but it seems so foreign.
Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design…
For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete.
If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop…
If you really understand something, you can say it in the fewest words, instead of thrashing about.
When Facebook first started, and it was just a social directory for undergrads at Harvard, it would have seemed like such a…
There are plenty of smart people who get nowhere.
Some people just get what they want in the world.

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