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"LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing."
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"Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal."

"Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know."

"If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation."

"Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand."

"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."

"The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle."
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"You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN."

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

"In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration"."

"I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it."
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