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The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
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Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is,…
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I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking…
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APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection.
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Lisp has jokingly been called "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer". I think that description is a great compliment because…
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The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely…
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Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code.
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In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they…
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The tools we use have a profound and devious influence on our thinking habits, and therefore on our thinking abilities.
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We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremendous difficulty,…
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Don't believe stories which you see in the papers about troops asking as a special privilege not to be relieved. We stick…
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I think all writers are always collecting characters as we go along. Not just characters of course, we're collecting EVERYTHING. Bits and…
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We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremendous difficulty,…
— Edsger Dijkstra
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Just like a turtle, we only make progress if we stick our neck out.
— James Bryant Conant
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As long as we stick together , we can smash the sadness
— Mikey Way
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We writers don't really think about whether what we write is good or not. It's too much to worry about. We just…
— Garrison Keillor
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People begin running for any number of motives, but we stick to it for one basic reason-to find out who we really…
— George A. Sheehan
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We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
— Helen Keller
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Are you trying to weasel out of showing us any of this stuff?" said Zacharias Smith. "Here's an idea," said Ron loudly,…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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No,” Shane said. “I’m not leaving you two here alone. We stick together.” “I’m still not kissing you,” Michael said. “Tease.
— Rachel Caine
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His father's made us paint half this town and if we stick around any longer he'll make us paint the rest of…
— Melina Marchetta
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Most of our difficulties, our hopes, and our worries are empty fantasies. Nothing has ever existed except this moment. That's all there…
— Joko Beck
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