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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.

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Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
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Every Program Purpose Two Written
If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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Explain Head Listener Nod Program Wake
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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Adapt Behave Machine Mean Old One Program Usual
That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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Always Buddle Discard Meant Point See Soap Whole
“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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Bittersweet End Fun Least Often Pass Philosophy Program Toward
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Become Level Low Machine Understand Program
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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Compassion Computer Graduate Instist Professor Science Student
Any noun can be verbed.
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Any Noun One Liner Verb
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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English Language Program Verb Word
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder Optimization
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Chance Earlier Program Specification Versa Vice
Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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Advance Crumble End Justify Often Structure Survive Technique
I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Compute Computer Extraordinary Fun Important Science Think
C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Cast Die never Programmer Void
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Compute Defibation Frustration Live Obvious Turn Useful Word

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