Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
From Alan Perlis
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
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.
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.
The best book on programming for the layman is 'Alice in Wonderland'; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.
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