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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Attention Irrelevant Language Low Program Require
You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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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
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
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
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Once Program Someone Understand Write Wrote
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Error Program Third Way Work
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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Bloom Computer Flower Fortean Grow Hardy Occasionally Weed
In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every Program Long Rubble Run
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
One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Complex Display Information Mind Only
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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Adapt Behave Machine Mean Old One Program Usual
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Become Level Low Machine Understand Program
“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
Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Anything Else Like Possible Software
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder Optimization
Any noun can be verbed.
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Any Noun One Liner Verb
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Absorb Change Language Manage Program Progress Some Withstand
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
Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Good Idea Responsible Them Will
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Compute Failure Get Mean Shorter Time
A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Describe Picture Ten Thousand Word Worth
I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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Direction House Keep Responsible Set Stretch Think
Banality soothes our nerves.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Else Error Everything Program Reborn
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Artificial Believe Enough God Intelligence Spent

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