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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.

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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Else Error Everything Program Reborn
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
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Help Learn Live Matter Sustain Training
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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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
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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Better Data Function Operate Structure
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Build Down Everything Except First Time Up
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Against Children Education Go Grain Modern Program Teach
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Compute Failure Get Mean Shorter Time
Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Also Easy Handle Hard Improve Success Work
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
You think you KNOW when you learn.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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