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The best programs (self.proquotes)
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The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.
--Donald Knuth, Selected Papers on Computer Science

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Programs must be written for people to read (self.proquotes)
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Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
--Harold Abelson, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

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There are only two kinds of languages (self.proquotes)
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There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
--Bjarne Stroustrup

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Premature optimization (self.proquotes)
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Premature optimization is the root of all evil.
--Donald Knuth

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Computers are useless (self.proquotes)
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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
--Pablo Picasso