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A programming language is for
thinking
of programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of.
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Being mean makes you stupid. That's why I hate fights. You never do your best work in a fight, because fights are not sufficiently general. Winning is always a function of the situation and the people involved. You don't win fights by
thinking
of big ideas but by
thinking
of tricks that work in one particular case. And yet fighting is just as much work as
thinking
about real problems.
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Architects know that some kinds of design problems are more personal than others. One of the cleanest, most abstract design problems is designing bridges. There your job is largely a matter of spanning a given distance with the least material. The other end of the spectrum is designing chairs. Chair designers have to spend their time
thinking
about human butts.
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We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.
Charles Dudley Warner
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November 13, 1964
(age 60)
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