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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.

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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Absorb Change Language Manage Program Progress Some Withstand
Any noun can be verbed.
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Any Noun One Liner Verb
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
You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Can Know Learn Sure Write
Banality soothes our nerves.
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Banality Nerve Our
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Compute Failure Get Mean Shorter Time
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Hard Improve Problem Solve Word Wrong
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Done Mss Parameter Procedure Verge
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
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
Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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Advance Crumble End Justify Often Structure Survive Technique
Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Adequately Describe Hardly Picture Set Ten Thousand Word
Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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Alternation Important Life Lovely Matter More Movement Picture Seek View
Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Anything Else Like Possible Software
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

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