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Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.
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An algorithm must be seen to be believed.
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The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language.
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The real problem is that programmers have spent far too much time worrying about efficiency in the wrong places and at the wrong times; premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming.
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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
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AI has by now succeeded in doing essentially everything that requires ‘thinking’ but has failed to do most of what people and animals do ‘without thinking.
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Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute.
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Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
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I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.
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