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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.

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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
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Conceptual Good Language Program Think Universe
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
A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Hard Improve Problem Solve Word Wrong
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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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
“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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Bittersweet End Fun Least Often Pass Philosophy Program Toward
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Compute Failure Get Mean Shorter Time
If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Fermat Last Next Program Prove Theorem Today Verge
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
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Become Level Low Machine Understand Program
You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Can Know Learn Sure Write

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