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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Complex Display Information Mind Only
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Error Program Third Way Work
A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Describe Picture Ten Thousand Word Worth
Dealing with failure is easy.
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Deal Easy Failure
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Compute Failure Get Mean Shorter Time
Banality soothes our nerves.
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Banality Nerve Our
What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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Acquire Attention Critical Detail Devote Fun Make Organization Plan Self
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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Analysis Complutense Identity Logic Measure Program
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Conceptual Good Language Program Think Universe
Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Help Learn Live Matter Sustain Training
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
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
Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Adequately Describe Hardly Picture Set Ten Thousand Word
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Cost Everything Know Lips Nothing Program
Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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First Laboratory Motto Often Research Think Today Tomorrow Work
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Cancer Cause Semicolon Sugar Syntactic
I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Compute Computer Extraordinary Fun Important Science Think
In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every Program Long Rubble Run
When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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Awful Began Complain Course Customer Pay Seriously Shafted Start
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
In English every word can be verbed.
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English Language Language Programming Languages
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
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Attention Irrelevant Language Low Program Require
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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English Language Program Verb Word
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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Adapt Behave Machine Mean Old One Program Usual
There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Free Such Thing Variable
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Adjust Machine Man Must Symbiosis

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