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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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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder Optimization
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Also Easy Handle Hard Improve Success Work
I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Another Constant Man Variable
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Can Know Learn Sure Write
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
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
Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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Cheval Everything Follow Horse Language Learn Same Trivial Way Word
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Hard Improve Problem Solve Word Wrong

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