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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.

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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Affect Fool Ignore Know Program Worth
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Cancer Cause Semicolon Sugar Syntactic
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 is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Chance Earlier Program Specification Versa Vice
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
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Every Program Purpose Two Written
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
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
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
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
Banality soothes our nerves.
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Banality Nerve Our
Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Good Idea Responsible Them Will
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Done Mss Parameter Procedure Verge
You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Hard Improve Problem Solve Word Wrong
When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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Done Language Lolipop Need Only Programme Say Someone
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
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

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