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My boyfriend suggested I write two pages a day. He wouldn't take me out if I hadn't done my two pages. That's how I wrote my second novel.

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The effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities 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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The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.

Simplicity, Design, Purpose, Semantic, Abstraction

Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.

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Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?

Bells, Code Quality, Powerful, Programming, Set

Raise your quality standards as high as you can live with, avoid wasting your time on routine problems, and always try to work as closely as possible at the boundary of your abilities. Do this, because it is the only way of discovering how that boundary should be moved forward.

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