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"Usually its users discover sooner or later that their program does not deliver all the desired results, or worse, that the results requested were not the ones really needed."
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"This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements."

"It was inevitable that in doing this I should arrive at new results, and it is perhaps understandable that in the end I have felt impelled to present these results not only in the dry form of a catalogue, but also in a more connected and personal one."

"I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results."

"What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead."
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"But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs."

"Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever."
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