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What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?

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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Anything Else Like Possible Software
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
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
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
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Compute Failure Get Mean Shorter Time
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
Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Adequately Describe Hardly Picture Set Ten Thousand Word
In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every Program Long Rubble Run
Dealing with failure is easy.
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Deal Easy Failure
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Build Down Everything Except First Time Up
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Lisp Parentheses Pen Programmer Thought Toast
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
Any noun can be verbed.
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Any Noun One Liner Verb
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
Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Also Easy Handle Hard Improve Success Work

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