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Experience does by no means automatically leads to wisdom and understanding.


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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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The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.



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Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.



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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.



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Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.



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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 precise.



Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.

Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.



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Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!



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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.



Teaching COBOL ought to be regarded as a criminal act.

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Please…” she begged as her fingers flexed against the wall she leaned against.Game. On.



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Of course not. You can't have a family hanging over you like a bunch of old dead goats. No offense.



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