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"We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses."
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"Heresy is another word for freedom of thought."

"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."

"How can the thoughts be stopped? Tell the thoughts, 'You take care of your own issues; I am not on your side.' That way you will sit on God's side."

"Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track."

"Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything. Granted, granted I'm a babbler, a harmless, irksome babbler, as we all are. But what's to be done if the sole and express purpose of every intelligent man is babble--that is, a deliberate pouring from empty into void."
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"Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress."

"You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN."

"Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it."

"A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant."

"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?"
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