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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.

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Deal Easy Failure
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder Optimization
In English every word can be verbed.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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“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
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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Optimization hinders evolution.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every Program Long Rubble Run
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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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 can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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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
A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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