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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

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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
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Conceptual Good Language Program Think Universe
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Done Mss Parameter Procedure Verge
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
C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Cast Die never Programmer Void
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
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
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Computer Country English Made Probably Speak
Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Good Idea Responsible Them Will
You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Hard Improve Problem Solve Word Wrong
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Become Level Low Machine Understand Program
In English every word can be verbed.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Anything Else Like Possible Software
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
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
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Artificial Believe Enough God Intelligence Spent

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