

“Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer.”
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“If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.”
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“It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.”
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“The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.”
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