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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.

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Any noun can be verbed.
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Any Noun One Liner Verb
When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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Awful Began Complain Course Customer Pay Seriously Shafted Start
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Attention Irrelevant Language Low Program Require
Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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Certain Even More Program Sure Teach Write
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
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Build Down Everything Except First Time Up
Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Good Idea Responsible Them Will
Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Every Raeder Himself Periodically
You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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Attitude Continue Measure Nothing Perspective Programme Rothman
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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English Language Program Verb Word
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
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Inevitable People Poorly Program Think
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Adjust Machine Man Must Symbiosis
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Become Level Low Machine Understand Program
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
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Else Error Everything Program Reborn
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Compute Failure Get Mean Shorter Time
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
One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Complex Display Information Mind Only
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Computer Embarrasses Science
There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Free Such Thing Variable
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
A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Describe Picture Ten Thousand Word Worth
Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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Cheval Everything Follow Horse Language Learn Same Trivial Way Word
I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Computer Field Fun Hope Lose Science Sense
The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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Anything Best Book Layman People Wonderland
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity

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