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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.

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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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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
Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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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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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Once Program Someone Understand Write Wrote
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Compute Failure Get Mean Shorter Time
Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Computer Embarrasses Science
The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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Anything Best Book Layman People Wonderland
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Chance Earlier Program Specification Versa Vice
Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Anything Else Like Possible Software
Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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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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