"19: A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing."

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“64: Often it is means that justify ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.”

“8: A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.”

“39: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.”

“16: Every program has two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.”

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“57: It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.”

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