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“Toward what end, toward what end?”- but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.

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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Formal Informal Mean Proceed
Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Anything Else Like Possible Software
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Compute Failure Get Mean Shorter Time
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Done Mss Parameter Procedure Verge
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Error Program Third Way Work
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
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Build Down Everything Except First Time Up
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Inevitable People Poorly Program Think
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
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
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Bird Early Make Often Software System Worm
Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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Always Click Compute Desperate Field Vitality
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
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
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Artificial Believe Enough God Intelligence Spent
Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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Alternation Important Life Lovely Matter More Movement Picture Seek View

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