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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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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Can Know Learn Sure Write
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
Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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Bloom Computer Flower Fortean Grow Hardy Occasionally Weed
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Formal Informal Mean Proceed
Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Anything Else Like Possible Software
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
Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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Always Click Compute Desperate Field Vitality
Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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Certain Even More Program Sure Teach Write
Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Adequately Describe Hardly Picture Set Ten Thousand Word
I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Computer Field Fun Hope Lose Science Sense
Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Every Raeder Himself Periodically
One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Complex Display Information Mind Only
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Build Down Everything Except First Time Up

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