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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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Explain Head Listener Nod Program Wake
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Compute Failure Get Mean Shorter Time
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
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
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Formal Informal Mean Proceed
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Attention Irrelevant Language Low Program Require
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Bird Early Make Often Software System Worm
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Against Children Education Go Grain Modern Program Teach
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Inevitable People Poorly Program Think
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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Acquire Attention Critical Detail Devote Fun Make Organization Plan Self
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
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Error Program Third Way Work
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Computer Embarrasses Science
C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Cast Die never Programmer Void
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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