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

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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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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
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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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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Acquire Attention Critical Detail Devote Fun Make Organization Plan Self
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
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Affect Fool Ignore Know Program Worth
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
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Lisp Parentheses Pen Programmer Thought Toast
You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Every Raeder Himself Periodically
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every Program Long Rubble Run
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Adjust Machine Man Must Symbiosis
You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Hard Improve Problem Solve Word Wrong
Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Help Learn Live Matter Sustain Training
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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