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

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Computer Field Fun Hope Lose Science Sense
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
Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Also Easy Handle Hard Improve Success Work
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Become Level Low Machine Understand Program
Any noun can be verbed.
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Any Noun One Liner Verb
I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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Direction House Keep Responsible Set Stretch Think
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Build Down Everything Except First Time Up
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
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
When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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Done Language Lolipop Need Only Programme Say Someone
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder Optimization
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Done Mss Parameter Procedure Verge
In English every word can be verbed.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Artificial Believe Enough God Intelligence Spent
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Formal Informal Mean Proceed
You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Can Know Learn Sure Write

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