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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
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
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Affect Fool Ignore Know Program Worth
A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Describe Picture Ten Thousand Word Worth
Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Adequately Describe Hardly Picture Set Ten Thousand Word
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Cancer Cause Semicolon Sugar Syntactic
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
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
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Formal Informal Mean Proceed
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Artificial Believe Enough God Intelligence Spent
In English every word can be verbed.
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English Language Language Programming Languages
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Done Mss Parameter Procedure Verge
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Bird Early Make Often Software System Worm
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
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
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

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