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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
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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Done Language Lolipop Need Only Programme Say Someone
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Lisp Parentheses Pen Programmer Thought Toast
You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Can Know Learn Sure Write
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Formal Informal Mean Proceed
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
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
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Else Error Everything Program Reborn
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Computer Embarrasses Science
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
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’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Hard Improve Problem Solve Word Wrong
That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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Always Buddle Discard Meant Point See Soap Whole
Banality soothes our nerves.
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Banality Nerve Our
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Adjust Machine Man Must Symbiosis
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Artificial Believe Enough God Intelligence Spent
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder Optimization
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Cancer Cause Semicolon Sugar Syntactic
One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Another Constant Man Variable
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
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
There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Free Such Thing Variable
Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Also Easy Handle Hard Improve Success Work
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
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Build Down Everything Except First Time Up
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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