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"LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing."
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"I'll see Naomi Wolf on television periodically, I have nothing against her and what she says, but I'll feel that she's a politician, like she's got an agenda to get across and that she doesn't always say what's really true or exactly what she feels."
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"The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person."
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"I don't necessarily write everything as automatically assuming it will be collected, there's nothing that says Hitman will be collected, though it might be."
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"So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool."
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"Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?"
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"No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing."
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"To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say."
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"Ain't nothing but 10 grand. What's 10 grand to me?"
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"In fine, nothing is said now that has not been said before."
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"Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all."
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"One man's constant is another man's variable."
Man
"The computing field is always in need of new cliches."
Cliches
"It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical."
Education
"Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it."
Complexity
"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?"
Software
"If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan."
Computer
"Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it."
Complexity
"You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN."
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"A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant."
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"I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it."
People
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