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

You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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Attitude Continue Measure Nothing Perspective Programme Rothman
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Compute Defibation Frustration Live Obvious Turn Useful Word
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
A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Affect Language Program Think Worth
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Chance Earlier Program Specification Versa Vice
Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Good Idea Responsible Them Will
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
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder Optimization
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Cost Everything Know Lips Nothing Program
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Cancer Cause Semicolon Sugar Syntactic
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Error Program Third Way Work
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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Bloom Computer Flower Fortean Grow Hardy Occasionally Weed
We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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Bagan Error Feel Free Machine Perfect Responsible Successful
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Compute Failure Get Mean Shorter Time
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
C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Cast Die never Programmer Void

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