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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.

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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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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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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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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
Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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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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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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