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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Hard Improve Problem Solve Word Wrong
Dealing with failure is easy.
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Deal Easy Failure
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Chance Earlier Program Specification Versa Vice
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Compute Failure Get Mean Shorter Time
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Bird Early Make Often Software System Worm
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Can Know Learn Sure Write
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Artificial Believe Enough God Intelligence Spent
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
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Once Program Someone Understand Write Wrote
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
Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Help Learn Live Matter Sustain Training
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Attention Irrelevant Language Low Program Require
I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Compute Computer Extraordinary Fun Important Science Think
A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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