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"Our ultimate goal is extensible programming (EP). By this, we mean the construction of hierarchies of modules, each module adding new functionality to the system."
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"Earnestly and persistently pursue your dreams."

"I always have a lot of personal goals, but primarily my main goal each year is to obviously win a Super Bowl."

"There are often two sets of goals in life: those that we establish, and those that really matter."

"In this world, there are instruments to acquire instruments; 'here', there is the instrument to attain the Final Goal (Self Realization)."

"My goals have gone from being an all-star to just being able to play basketball. I always took for granted that I could play. Now I know what a gift it is."

"You may give up your big dream and that is very hard! If necessary, give it up but then create a new one! Never live without big dreams because they will keep you alive in life!"
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"Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence."

"A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do."

"The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed."

"Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples."

"Yet, I am convinced that there is a need for high quality software, and the time will come when it will be recognized that it is worth investing effort in its development and in using a careful, structured approach based on safe, structured languages."

"But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity."

"Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy is another fallacy."

"The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision."

"My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation."
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